Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOf all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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 wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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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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