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Michel de Montaigne Quote: “A man of genius belongs to no period and no country. He speaks the language of nature, which is always everywhere the same.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Every movement reveals us.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content; and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man’s value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “For a desperate disease a desperate cure.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “To know how to live is my trade and my art.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “We must not attach knowledge to the mind; we have to incorporate it there.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Necessity is a violent school-mistress.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.”
Michel de Montaigne Quote: “What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.”
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