If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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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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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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