For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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