I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELove 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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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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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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 world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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