I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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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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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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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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The thing I fear most is fear.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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