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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEShe will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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 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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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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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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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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