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Michel De Montaigne Quotes

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Glory and curiosity are the two scourges of the soul; the last prompts us to thrust our noses into everything, the other forbids us to leave anything doubtful and undecided  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) Who ever saw one physician approve of another’s prescription, without taking something away, or adding something to it?  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) Life in itself is neither good nor evil; it is the scene of good or evil, as you make it  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) The covetous man fares worse with his passion than the poor, and the jealous man than the cuckold  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) We are not sensible of the most perfect health, as we are of the least sickness  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have other tie upon one another, but by our word  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) Man, in good earnest, is a marvelous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not discreetly how to use it  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself, and not by borrowing  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) A man must not always tell all, for that were folly, but what a man says should be what he thinks  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) Nature has presented us with a large faculty of entertaining ourselves alone; and often calls us to it, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but chiefly and mostly to ourselves  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) We are more sensible of one little touch of a surgeon’s lancet than of twenty wounds with a sword in the heat of fight  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) When I religiously confess myself to myself, I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) The sciences and arts are not cast in a mold, but formed and shaped little by little, by repeated handling and polishing, as bears lick their cubs into shape at leisure  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is ordered by orders, method, and discipline  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) The world is but a school of research. The question is not who shall hit the ring, but who shall run the best course  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) My home... It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) Confidence in another man’s virtue is no slight evidence of a man’s own  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) Plutarch would rather we should applaud his judgment than commend his knowledge, and would rather leave us with an appetite to read more than glutted with that we have already read  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves. Fear, desire, and hope are still pushing us on towards the future  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
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