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Michel De Montaigne Quotes
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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am myself the matter of my book (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us; our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
It is equally pointless to weep because we won’t be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one’s individuality (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people’s flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something? (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The easy, gentle, and sloping path... is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason’s way, not by popular say (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them? (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting? (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and nobler as they roll along: follow them back upstream to their sources and all you find is a tiny spring, hardly recognizable; as time goes by it swells with pride and grows in strength (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery? (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)