I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.
Michel de Montaigne
Quotes
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Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.
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The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
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Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
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The strongest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself.
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whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present?
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.
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I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.
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Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.
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He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
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Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others
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Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.