Michel de Montaigne Quotes

• 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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• I quote others only to better express myself.

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  A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.

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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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• How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

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• Few men have been admired of their familiars.

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• The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

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• Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

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• Ambition is not a vice of little people.

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• There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging 10 times in his life.

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• Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

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• He who is not sure of his memory should not undertake the trade of lying.

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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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• Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

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• Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

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• No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

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• He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

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• I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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• The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

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• I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

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Michel de Montaigne (133)

Birth:	28th February, 1533
Death:	13th September, 1592
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Philosopher, Writer

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