We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEven 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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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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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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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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