For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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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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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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