Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Humility
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Que sais-je?
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When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?
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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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Si, avons nous beau monter sur des echasses, car sur des echasses encore faut-il marcher de nos jambes. Et au plus eleve trone du monde, si ne sommes assis que sur notre cul.
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Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.
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Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.