Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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One may be humble out of pride.
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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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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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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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