Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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