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

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• He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

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

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• Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

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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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• Few men have been admired of their familiars.

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• Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

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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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• Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

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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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• Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

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

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• Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.

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

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• An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

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• Ambition is not a vice of little people.

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• A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

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• A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

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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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