Tag: Michel de Montaigne
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
Michel de Montaigne
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
Michel de Montaigne
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
Michel de Montaigne
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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.
Michel de Montaigne
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Michel de Montaigne
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
Michel de Montaigne
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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.
Michel de Montaigne
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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.
Michel de Montaigne
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne