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Michel De Montaigne Quotes
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We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
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 Quotes)
A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian! (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire! (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees? (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass? (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us? (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
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 Quotes)
We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another’s than of our own (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)