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Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Let every foot have its own shoe.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “I do not understand; I pause; I examine.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The world is but a perpetual see-saw.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “It needs courage to be afraid.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Books are a languid pleasure.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The soul that has no established aim loses itself.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Happiness is a singular incentive to mediocrity.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell:.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children’s affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “No man profiteth but by the loss of others.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life .”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Children’s playthings are not sports and should be deemed as their most serious actions.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, “Somebody else’s”.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “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.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.”
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