One may be humble out of pride.
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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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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My trade and art is to live.
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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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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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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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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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