If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEUnless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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