Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOf all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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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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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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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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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from 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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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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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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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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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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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