Few men have been admired of their familiars.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOne may be humble out of pride.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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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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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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 but a perpetual see-saw.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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