I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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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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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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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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