It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIgnorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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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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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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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 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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My trade and art is to live.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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