I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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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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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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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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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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