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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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