8 Quotes about Self by Michel de Montaigne (Free list)

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Michel de Montaigne quotes about self

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

— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

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Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling here one word and there another, patterns cut from severalpieces and scattered without design and without engaging myself too far, I am not responsible for them, or obliged to keep close to my subject, without varying at my own liberty and pleasure, and giving up myself to doubt and uncertainty, and to myown governing method, ignorance.

— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

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Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.

— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

— Michel de Montaigne

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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself and not by borrowing.

— Michel de Montaigne

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Of all our infirmities the most savage is to despise our being.

— Michel de Montaigne

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Not being able to govern events I govern myself.

— Michel de Montaigne

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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

— Michel de Montaigne

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