Michel de Montaigne Quotes - Page 18

• The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

  Michel de Montaigne

  World, Problem, Trouble

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• Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.

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  Education, Children, Freedom

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.123, Stanford University Press

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• A man may be humble through vainglory.

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  Humble, Men, May

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.479, Stanford University Press

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• Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

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  Command

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• A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.

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  Children, Father, Parent

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.623, Delphi Classics

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• As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

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  Life, Self, Grants

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”

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• Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.

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  God, Dream, Knowledge

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• Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.

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  Use, Worship, Found

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.697, Xist Publishing

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• If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

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  Men, Different, Portraiture

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• Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others bring trinkets to sell to the crowd for gain; and some there are, and not the worst, who seek no other profit than to look at the show and see how and why everything is done; spectators of the life of other people in order to judge and regulate their own.

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  Life, Order, Games

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• Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man.... It is impossible to go back further and lower. He did a great favor to human nature by showing how much it can do by itself.

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  Men, Heaven, Favors

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• Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that our children will turn out well, or that our name will be famous in the future, or that we shall escape the evils of this life, or that vengeance threatens those who are the cause of our death.

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  Hope, Children, Thinking

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• Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?

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  Stubborn, Serious, Heat

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• Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

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  Hands, Promise, Variation

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• And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.

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  Shoulders, New Words

  Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton (1711). “Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,”, p.121

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• A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it

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  Pain, Men, May

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!

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  Children, Father, Inheritance

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers.

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  Play, Laughing, Stranger

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• Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

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  Country, Giving, Titles

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.228, 谷月社

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• Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.

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  Men, Understanding, Lost

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

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• Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

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  Ordinary, Taste, Mundane

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “The Essays of Montaigne”, p.425

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• Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.

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  Substance, Taste, Shame

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• Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

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  Glory, Repose

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.

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  Power, Men, Atheism

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• How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!

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  Thoughtful, Thinking, Keeping Secrets

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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