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There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.


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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, gr...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never s...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dis...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most s...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate ...
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