How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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