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Michel De Montaigne Quotes
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease... It craves a steep and thorny path (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle in the world than myself (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present? (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The poverty of goods is easily cured; the poverty of the soul is irreparable (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Scratching is one of nature’s sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Confidence in another person’s virtue is no light evidence of your own (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
We are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stone (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Since we cannot attain to greatness, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Not merely giving the mind a slight tincture but a thorough and perfect dye (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Pity and commiseration are mixed with some regard for the thing which one pities (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
In plain truth, it is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Experience teaches that a good memory is generally joined to a weak judgment (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around! (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)