Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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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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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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