It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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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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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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