Michel de Montaigne on borrow
Michel de Montaigne109 quotes“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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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity.
Alan GreenspanAlan Greenspan That is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
MartialMartial Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
Igor StravinskyIgor Stravinsky I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.
Dorothea DixDorothea Dix Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let’s think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.
Zelda FitzgeraldZelda Fitzgerald Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson Man is the only animal to borrow tools.
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