Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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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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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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