Few men have been admired of their familiars.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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My trade and art is to live.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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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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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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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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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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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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