Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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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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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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