I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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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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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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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.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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