I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEvery man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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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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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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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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