There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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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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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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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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