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Up Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty,…
- Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only…
- And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man…
- Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other…
- Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles.
- As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make…
- In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life;…
- When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.
- And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of…
- We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their…
- We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to…
- It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and…
- Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and…
- The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or…
- I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life…
- It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put…
- That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for…
- In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.
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