We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIgnorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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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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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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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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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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