I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEConfidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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 write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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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.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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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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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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