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My Own Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
- When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
- For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and…
- Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I look upon all…
- And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of…
- I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
- I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the…
- I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.
- I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.
- I have gathered a posy of other menÂ’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
More My Own Quotes
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard. — Rodney Atkins
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. — Diane Ackerman
- If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord. — Johann Sebastian Bach
- I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though. — Kevin Bacon
- I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much… — Amy Adams
- I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. — Mikhail Bakunin
- I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene. — Christian Bale