The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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My trade and art is to live.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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