In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEShe will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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My trade and art is to live.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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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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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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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.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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