Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWhen I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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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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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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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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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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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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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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