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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.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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My trade and art is to live.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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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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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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I 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.
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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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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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