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1 " The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. "
― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays
2 " I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself. "
― Michel de Montaigne
3 " I quote others only in order the better to express myself. "
4 " Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. "
5 " The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. "
6 " Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. "
7 " L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage. "
8 " Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage. "
9 " D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action. "
10 " Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de tous les vices. "
11 " Il n'est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes. "
12 " Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté. "
13 " Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à l'homme quelque instinct à l'inhumanité "
14 " Why do people respect the package rather than the man? "
15 " There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened. "
16 " 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. "
17 " I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;but so far as I can remember,I have followed none but my own. "
18 " Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents. "
19 " There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance "
20 " We need but little learning to live happily. "
