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Michel De Montaigne Quotes
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions of grammar (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure no slight pleasure (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)