I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNETis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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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