Few men have been admired of their familiars.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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 do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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My trade and art is to live.
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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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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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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