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Michel de Montaigne Quote: “I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk’s sake.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “As for extraordinary things, all the provision in the world would not suffice.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.”
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