Tag: Michel de Montaigne
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Michel de Montaigne
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
Michel de Montaigne
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Michel de Montaigne
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
Michel de Montaigne
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
Michel de Montaigne
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
Michel de Montaigne
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
Michel de Montaigne
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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.
Michel de Montaigne
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
Michel de Montaigne
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Michel de Montaigne