One may be humble out of pride.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAn untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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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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The thing I fear most is fear.
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