If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHow many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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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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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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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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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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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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