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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
– Michel de Montaigne

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  2. When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind. – Michel de Montaigne
  3. I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please. – Michel de Montaigne
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  8. We should tend our freedom wisely. – Michel de Montaigne
  9. No passion disturbs the soundness of our judgement as anger does. – Michel de Montaigne
  10. The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. – Michel de Montaigne
  11. Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own. – Michel de Montaigne
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  13. Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves. – Michel de Montaigne
  14. If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. – Michel de Montaigne
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  16. Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing. – Michel de Montaigne
  17. All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own. – Michel de Montaigne
  18. There is no passion so much transports thesincerity of judgement as doth anger – Michel de Montaigne
  19. Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition. – Michel de Montaigne
  20. To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom. – Michel de Montaigne
  21. I…think it much more supportable to be always alone, than never to be so. – Michel de Montaigne
  22. A man with nothing to lend should refrain from borrowing. – Michel de Montaigne
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  24. Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. – Michel de Montaigne
  25. If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways. – Michel de Montaigne
  26. Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. – Washington Irving
  27. Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. – Henry Thomas Buckle
  28. Great minds believe they will succeed.Average minds doubt they can succeed.Small minds don’t even try to succeed. – Matshona Dhliwayo
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  30. Great minds birth great ideas.Extraordinary minds birth extraordinary ideas.Transcendent minds birth transcendent ideas. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  31. This divergence of experience was not a stumbling block to conversation; indeed, it was what made the conversation interesting. – Michael David Lukas
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  38. It is not the opinion of the common man that matters, but the opinion of men for whom you admire and truly respect. – Bohdi Sanders
  39. We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. – John Stuart Mill
  40. I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody’s opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself. – Ruben Studdard

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