Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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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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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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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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