Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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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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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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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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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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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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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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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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