Tag: Michel de Montaigne
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Michel de Montaigne
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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.
Michel de Montaigne
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne
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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.
Michel de Montaigne
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
Michel de Montaigne
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
Michel de Montaigne
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Michel de Montaigne
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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