Few men have been admired of their familiars.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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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 good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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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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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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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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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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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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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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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