In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than 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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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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