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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWe only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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