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Michel de Montaigne Quote: “There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The thing I fear most is fear.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “To understand via the heart is not to understand.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people’s flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness; her state is like the things above the moon, always clear and serene.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another’s than of our own.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn .”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Whatever can be done another day can be done today.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions of grammar.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “I want death to find me planting my cabbages.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.”
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