Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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