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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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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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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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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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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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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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