I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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The 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.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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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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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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