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True Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest…
- .. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted…
- 'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself…
- True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet…
- I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true…
- A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
- Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth of the new…
- A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place…
- The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.
- The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest…
- Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing. . . . I do not understand it. . . . Nothing seems true that…
- The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
- Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking
- The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.
- Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
- The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
- In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a…
- An agreeable opinion is accepted as true: this is the proof by pleasure (or, as the church says, the proof by strength), that all religions…
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- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
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- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
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