I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThose who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was 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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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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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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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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