In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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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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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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