I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHow many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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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.
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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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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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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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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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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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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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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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