The world is but a school of research. The question is not who shall hit the ring, but who shall run the best course.
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Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt it is all I require of them.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The easy, gentle, and sloping path ... is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
My art and profession is to live.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
... there is nevertheless a certain respect, a general duty to humanity, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants. We owe justice to men, and graciousness and benignity to other creatures ... there is a certain commerce and mutual obligation betwixt them and us.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is ordered by orders, method, and discipline.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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