Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe world is but a perpetual see-saw.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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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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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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