It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEUnless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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