Ambition is not a vice of little people.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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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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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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