I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMy life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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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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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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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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