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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

Michel de Montaigne

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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Metaphysic Myself Other Physic Study Subject
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Give Him Importance Love Man Reason
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Agree Bore Conversation Everybody One Thann
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition Little People Vise
The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Another Confidence Confident Evidence Favor God Man Own Such Virtue Willing
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Family Govern Kingdom Less Little Private Trouble Whole
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Desire Knowledge Natural No
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Content Contractor Mind Sign Weariness
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Great Him Injury Lie Myself So Tell Try Whom
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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Complain Much Myself Ordinary People Speak Themselves Think
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Argument Command Establish Noise Reason Show Weak

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