Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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 public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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