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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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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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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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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.
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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.
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