Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe thing I fear most is fear.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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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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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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