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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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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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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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My trade and art is to live.
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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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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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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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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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