Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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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 strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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