Michel de Montaigne quotes - page 2

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. (Michel de Montaigne)
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 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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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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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 do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. (Michel de Montaigne)
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw. (Michel de Montaigne)
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Marriage is a covenant which hath nothing free but the entrance.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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