I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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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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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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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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