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Michel De Montaigne Quotes
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The reason why borrowed books are so seldom returned to their owners is that it is much easier to retain the books than what is in them (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Such an one has been, as it were, miraculous in the world, in whom his wife and valet have seen nothing even remarkable; few men have been admired by their servants (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
On the most exalted throne in the world, we are still seated on nothing but our arse (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Whatever the benefits of fortune are, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them; it is fruition, and not possession, that renders us happy (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Men on all occasions throw themselves upon foreign assistances to spare their own, which are the only certain and sufficient ones with which they can arm themselves (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The fairest lives, in my opinion, are those which regularly accommodate themselves to the common and human model, without miracle, without extravagance (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, no more than glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
As one might say of me that I have only made here a collection of other people’s flowers, having provided nothing of my own but the cord to bind them together (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep; but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport, than she makes me? (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass? (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
All things, said an ancient saw, may be hoped for by a man as long as he lives (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? the most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)