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Michel De Montaigne Quotes
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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 Quotes)
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
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 Quotes)
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after having put the lad, like a young horse, on a trot, before him, to observe his paces, and see what he is able to perform, should, according to the extent of his capacity, induce him to taste, to distinguish, and to find out things for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it for him to open; and by abating or increasing his own pace, accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times? (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of our acquaintance and familiarity; and, consequently, that which first opens the door for us to better ourselves by the example of others, if there be anything in the society worth notice (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not; others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Seneca’s virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
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 Quotes)
A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)