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 MONTAIGNEMarriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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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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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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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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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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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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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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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