Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

Michel De Montaigne
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More Quotes By Michel De Montaigne
  1. If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

  2. The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

  3. I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

  4. I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

  5. Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

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