I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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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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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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