Michel de Montaigne Quotes - Page 11

• I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.

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  Men, Attention, Remember

  Michel de Montaigne (1956). “Autobiography: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times ...”

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• The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Birth, Wells

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 20, 1595.

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• I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.

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  Heart, Too Much, Injustice

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.849, Stanford University Press

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• Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content; and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality

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  Believe, Reality, Giving

  Michel de Montaigne (1849). “Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc”, p.145

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• Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

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  Marriage, Wedding, Order

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• Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophical, Men, Words Of Wisdom

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

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• Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.

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  Poison, Venom, Malice

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.827, 谷月社

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• I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

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  Book, Learning, Study

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.494, Stanford University Press

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• To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

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  Death, Oneself

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• The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

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  Wisdom, Moon, States

  "The Works of Michael de Montaigne".

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• For a desperate disease a desperate cure.

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  Disease, Desperate, Cures

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.382, 谷月社

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• I am myself the matter of my book.

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  Book, Matter

  Essais "Au Lecteur" (1580)

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• No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

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  Journey, Wind, Decision

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.370, 谷月社

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• Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.

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  Attitude, Law Of Attraction, Events

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• All general judgments are loose and imperfect

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  Judgement, Imperfect, Judgment

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• It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

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  Men, Two, Mind

  Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (2010). “Literary and Philosophical Essays”, p.57, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Time steals away without any inconvenience.

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  Time, Stealing, Inconvenience

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “Selected Essays”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

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  Perfection, Divine, Enjoy

  "Complete Essays".

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• I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.

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  Victory, Complaining, Fortune

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

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  Medicine, Dying, Physicians

  "Essays", Book II, Chapter XXXVII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 502-04, 1922.

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• Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire.

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  Love, Marriage, Smart

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.

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  Fashion, Law, Should

  Michel de Montaigne (1811). “The Essays of Michael de Montaigne”, p.125

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• God defend me from myself.

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  Self, May

  "The Complete Works of Michael de Montaigne".

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• Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.

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  Hate, Vices, Judgment

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• Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

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  Ease, Path, Virtue

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