Michel De Montaigne said this quote

“ I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness. ”

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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.

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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

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I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

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