If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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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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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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