I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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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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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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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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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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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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