I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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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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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 fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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