I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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My trade and art is to live.
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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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.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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