Michel de Montaigne Quotes - Page 10

• 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

  Truth, Firsts, Common

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne (107 annotated essays in 1 eBook + The Life of Montaigne + The Letters of Montaigne)”, p.217, e-artnow

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• A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.

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  Hate, Men, Vicious

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.447, Delphi Classics

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• Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

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  Friendship, Perfection, Degrees

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• The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.

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  Would Be, Way, Glory

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.830, 谷月社

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• Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.

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  Medicine, Sick, Democracy

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• To know much is often the cause of doubting more.

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  Doubt, Causes, Knows

  "Essais". Book by Michel de Montaigne, 1588.

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• It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mind, Spirited, Contractions

  Michel de Montaigne (1973). “Selections from the Essays”, Harlan Davidson

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• The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

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  Happiness, Beautiful, Soul

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.622, Stanford University Press

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• The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Foundation, Life Is

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.286, Delphi Classics

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• Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Years, Numbers

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• A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Needs, Ears

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• A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.

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  Travel, Journey, Men

  "Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection".

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• We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally to give way to them, according to their condition and our own, we ought to grant free passage to diseases; and I find they stay less with me who let them alone. And I have lost those which are reputed the most tenacious and obstinate of their own defervescence, without any help or art, and contrary to their rules. Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

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  Art, Giving, Evil

  Michel de Montaigne (1856). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.531

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• To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.

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  Book, Character, Winning

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.14, Stanford University Press

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• We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

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  Men, Practice, Waiting

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Alive, Opinion

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• Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Cowardice

  "Essais". Book by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 14, 1595.

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• Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

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  Paramount, Repose, Gentleness

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• 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

  Wise, Fool, Made

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.741

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• The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Light, Miracle, Ordinary

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• I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by too much water or lamps by too much oil; that our minds, held fast and encumbered by so many diverse preoccupations, may well lose the means of struggling free, remaining bowed and bent under the load; except that it is quite otherwise: the more our souls are filled, the more they expand; examples drawn from far-off times show, on the contrary, that great soldiers ad statesmen were also great scholars.

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  Educational, Struggle, Mean

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.

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  Light, Physicians, Earth

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 37, 1595.

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• ... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.

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  Believe, Charity, Belief

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.786, Stanford University Press

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• It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.

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  Women, Cost, Cherish

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.425, 谷月社

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• It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.

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  Happiness, Giving, Enjoy Life

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