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Michel De Montaigne Quotes

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Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) 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 Quotes) All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) 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 Quotes) The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it... The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness; her state is like the things above the moon, always clear and serene  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
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