One may be humble out of pride.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMake your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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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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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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