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Michel De Montaigne Quotes
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Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Socrates... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man... It is impossible to go back further and lower. He did a great favor to human nature by showing how much it can do by itself (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
A good marriage... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I would rather produce my passions than brood over them at my expense; they grow languid when they have vent and expression. It is better that their point should operate outwardly than be turned against us (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities,... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
When I was young, beautiful ancient statues were castrated, so that the eye might not be corrupted... Nothing was gained, unless horses and asses had also been castrated (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
There is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing. The name is no part of the thing nor of the substance; it is an extraneous piece added to the thing, and outside of it (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
An able reader often discovers in other people’s writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings and aspects (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)