He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIn true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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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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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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