I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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My trade and art is to live.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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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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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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