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Michel De Montaigne Quotes
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Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around! (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire! (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most our own; my opinions, in conformity with my conduct, are low and humble (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections? (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind? (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
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 (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else’s (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
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 Quotes)
It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)