One may be humble out of pride.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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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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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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