Michel de Montaigne Quotes - Page 28

• The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

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  Daughter, Men, Law

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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• Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Eye, Piercings, Letters

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• Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.

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  Wisdom, Intelligence, Pieces

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.1327, Delphi Classics

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• I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

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  History, May, Hours

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.669

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• The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

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  Science, Medicine, Bitterness

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.408, Delphi Classics

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• Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.

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  Powerful, Tradition, Customs

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.1033, 谷月社

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• My appetite comes to me while eating.

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  Eating, Appetite

  Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). “Essays [tr. by Cotton”, p.282

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• Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!

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  God, Heart, Men

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• For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet, hands, legs, shoulders, head, according as custom invites us. For if there is a part of us that is tender and that seems as though it should fear the cold, it should be the stomach, where digestion takes place; our fathers left it uncovered, and our ladies, soft and delicate as they are, sometimes go half bare down to the navel.

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  Father, Feet, Air

  Michel de Montaigne (1965). “Complete Essays”, p.334, Stanford University Press

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• Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sound

  "Essays". Book by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Chapter XII, February 15, 1857.

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• We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.

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  Wisdom, Joy, Sorrow

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• There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

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  Expectations, Enemy, Please

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• Whatever can be done another day can be done today.

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  Done, Today, Another Day

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.61, Stanford University Press

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• As for extraordinary things, all the provision in the world would not suffice.

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  World, Provision, Extraordinary Things

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

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• Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not; others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.

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  Believe, Numbers, World

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.675, Delphi Classics

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• If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.

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  Decision, Mind, Trials

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.611, Stanford University Press

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• There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

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  Book, Scarcity, Interpretation

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.1093, 谷月社

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• As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.

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  Physicians, Chance, Valuable

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

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• There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

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  Kings, Flattery, Vermin

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• We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.

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  Offers

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.1274, Delphi Classics

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• Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

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  Pride, Two, Soul

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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• I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.

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  Chance, Commit, Consultation

  Michel de Montaigne (1853). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.432

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• The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.

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  Shapes, Limits, Sides

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

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• If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

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  Giving, Good Humor, Spoil

  Michel de Montaigne (1892*). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

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• We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

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  Society, Substance, Body

  Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

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