Michel de Montaigne Quotes - Page 29

• We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Delight, Bittersweet, Kind

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• When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pain, Iron, Alliances

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.838, Stanford University Press

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• We are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stones.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Snow, Weight, Stones

  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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• A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

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  Good Marriage, Endeavor, Refuse

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• Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Desire, Our Future

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• It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Dying, Alarms, Death And Dying

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 13, 1595.

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• Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lovers, Speak, All Things

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• Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Christian, Simple, Men

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• There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Answers, Moments, Passing

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• To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Reform, Way, Sticks

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.190, Courier Corporation

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• Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and nobler as they roll along: follow them back upstream to their sources and all you find is a tiny spring, hardly recognizable; as time goes by it swells with pride and grows in strength.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Spring, Pride, Law

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

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• Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Laughter, Laughing, Peculiar

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• The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Evil, Wickedness, Known

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays:”, p.20, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sports, Medicine, Rocks

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• It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mind, Contractions, Weariness

  Michel de Montaigne (1980). “Essays”

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• Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Endurance, Tests, Violence

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.266, Stanford University Press

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• The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Advice, Secret, Burden

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 10-11, Essays, III. 1, 1922.

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• You have your face bare; I am all face.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Faces, Your Face

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.435, Delphi Classics

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• It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Soul, Weight, Littles

  Michel de Montaigne (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.541

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• No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Should, Force

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

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• Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• I have a vocabulary all my own. I "pass the time" when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Time, Vocabulary, Self

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?

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  Kings, Age, Theatre

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.

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  Suicide, Pain, Complaining

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.584, Delphi Classics

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• Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Goodness, Difficulty, Reports

  Michel de Montaigne (1903*). “Essays of Montaigne”

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