In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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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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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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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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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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