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 MONTAIGNELet us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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