Michel de Montaigne Quotations

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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Courage]

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Confidence]

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Confidence]

A wise man never loses anything if he have himself.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Self]

The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.
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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	more quotations on [Love]

Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Environment]

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold.... The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes a war betwixt princes.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Equality]

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Man is the sole animal whose nudity offends his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Body]

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Quotations]

Someone might say of me that I have only made a bouquet of other people's flowers here, having supplied nothing of my own but the thread to bind them.
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We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Wisdom]

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Morality]

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Patience]

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Failure]

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Boldness]

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