Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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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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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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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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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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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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