Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFor truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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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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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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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