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• Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

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

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• One may be humble out of pride.

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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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• Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

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• Wickedness sucks in the greater part of its own venom, and poisons itself therewith.

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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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• Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

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• Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.

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• A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

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• There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

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• I quote others in order to better express my own self.

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• I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

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• A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.

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• Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

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• An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

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• The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

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• The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

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• The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

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• There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

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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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