The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEConfidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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