We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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