In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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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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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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