“There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.”
— Michel de Montaigne
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Valor is stability, not of legs and
“Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.”
— Michel de Montaigne
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Let us permit nature to have her
“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.”
— Michel de Montaigne
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There is no pleasure to me without
“There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.”
— Michel de Montaigne
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There is not much less vexation in
“There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.”
— Michel de Montaigne
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Even from their infancy we frame them
“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.”
— Michel de Montaigne
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Category: learning
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I write to keep from going mad
“I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.”
— Michel de Montaigne
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There is not much less vexation in
“There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.”
— Michel de Montaigne
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I speak the truth not so much
“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.”
— Michel de Montaigne
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind
“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.”
— Michel de Montaigne
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I prefer the company of peasants because
“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
— Michel de Montaigne
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Category: education
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