I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEvery man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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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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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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If 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.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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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