Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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

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

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

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• No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

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• My trade and art is to live.

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• If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

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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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• 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.

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• If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

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• I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for 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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• 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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• 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 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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• I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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• I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

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• I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

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• I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

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

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• I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

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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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