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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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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.Michel De Montaigne
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I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.Michel De Montaigne
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.Michel De Montaigne
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Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.Michel De Montaigne
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The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.Michel De Montaigne
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.Michel De Montaigne
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L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage.Michel De Montaigne
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Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.Michel De Montaigne
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D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action.Michel De Montaigne
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L'honneste est stable et permanent.Michel De Montaigne
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J'accuse toute violence en l'education d'une ame tendre, qu'on dresse pour l'honneur, et la liberté.Michel De Montaigne
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Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de tous les vices.Michel De Montaigne
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Il n'est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes.Michel De Montaigne
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Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté.Michel De Montaigne
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Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à l'homme quelque instinct à l'inhumanitéMichel De Montaigne
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Why do people respect the package rather than the man?Michel De Montaigne
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Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds.Michel De Montaigne
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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.Michel De Montaigne
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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.Michel De Montaigne