I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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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 man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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