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Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “We are all of us richer than we think we are.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of their authority; they have none other.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “To philosophize is to doubt.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “One may be humble out of pride.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep; but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “To smell, though well, is to stink.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little. Make use of time while it is present with you. It depends upon your will, and not upon the number of days, to have a sufficient length of life.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “I am myself the matter of my book.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The world is but a perpetual see-saw.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The Emperor Conrad III had besieged Guelph, Duke of Bavaria; no matter how base and cowardly were the satisfactions offered him, the most generous condition he would vouchsafe was to allow the noblewomen who had been besieged with the Duke to come out honourably on foot, together with whatever they could carry on their persons. They, with greatness of heart, decided to carry out on their shoulders their husbands, their children and the Duke himself.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.”
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