If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Quote by Michel De Montaigne
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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.
Click on the picture of Michel De Montaigne quote you want to see a larger version.
Michel De Montaigne Quotes
- I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
- The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
- There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
- I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
- The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
- I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
- There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
- Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
- I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
- In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
Best Quotes
- History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.
- My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.
- Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
- We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
- Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.
- What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
- In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
- There is nothing new in art except talent.
- No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.