It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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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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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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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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