My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOne may be humble out of pride.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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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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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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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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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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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