Ambition is not a vice of little people.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEConfidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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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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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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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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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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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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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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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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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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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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