I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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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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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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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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