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Michel De Montaigne Quotes
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian! (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up (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)
When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Is it not a noble farce, where kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre? (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
There is scarcely any less bother in the running of a family than in that of an entire state. And domestic business is no less importunate for being less important (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
We are not sensible of the most perfect health, as we are of the least sickness (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying (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)