Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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