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Best Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
- But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch his pupil and…
- Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that…
- I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
- Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".
- Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
- Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
- The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.
- The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
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