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 MONTAIGNEIt is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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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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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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My trade and art is to live.
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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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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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