The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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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