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Myself Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
- I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- 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…
- I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
- I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
- I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
- If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
- Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
- If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because…
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