240 ordspråk av Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
I do not teach, I relate
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle in the world than myself
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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I listen with attention to the judgement of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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I quote others only the better to express myself
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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
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I value little my own opinions but I value just as little those of others
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I want death to find me planting my cabbage
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but caring little for it, and even less for my imperfect garden
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind--and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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