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Description: W. E. B. Du Bois quote: The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.

Description: W. E. B. Du Bois quote: The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, — this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self.

Description: W. E. B. Du Bois quote: The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.

Description: W. E. B. Du Bois quote: There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

Description: W. E. B. Du Bois quote: To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Description: W. E. B. Du Bois quote: Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

Description: W. E. B. Du Bois quote: The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

Description: W. E. B. Du Bois quote: How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall Desert and Accomplishment meet Despising, Detraction, and Lies? What shall Virtue do to meet Brute Force? There are so many answers and so contradictory; and such differences for those on the one hand who meet questions similar to this once a year or once a decade, and those who face them hourly and daily.

Description: W. E. B. Du Bois quote: Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

Description: Montaigne quote: Je ne dis les autres, sinon pour d'autant plus me dire.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Things are not so painful and difficult of themselves, but our weakness or cowardice makes them so.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Je veux qu'on me voit en ma façon simple, naturelle, et ordinaire, sans étude et artifice; car c'est moi que je peins...Je suis moi-même la matière de mon livre.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray...I am myself the matter of my book.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Si, avons nous beau monter sur des échasses, car sur des échasses encore faut-il marcher de nos jambes. Et au plus élevé trône du monde, si ne sommes assis que sur notre cul.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: No matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Ceux qui ont apparié notre vie à un songe ont eu de la raison. ... Nous veillons dormants et veillants dormons.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: My trade and my art is living.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Mon métier et mon art, c'est vivre.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: L'homme est bien insensé : il ne saurait forger un ciron et forge des dieux à la douzaine.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Quand je me jouë à ma chatte, qui sçait, si elle passe son temps de moy plus que je ne fay d’elle ?

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: He who does not give himself leisure to be thirsty cannot take pleasure in drinking.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Every rich man is avaricious, in my opinion.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: La plus grande chose du monde, c'est de savoir être à soi.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: L'homme d'entendement n'a rien perdu, s'il a soi-même.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.