I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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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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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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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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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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