I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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 never loses anything, if he has himself.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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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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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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