If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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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 finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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