I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOne may be humble out of pride.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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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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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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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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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.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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