If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIn true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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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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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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The thing I fear most is fear.
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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 do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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