Michel de Montaigne Quotes - Page 37

• If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.

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  Eye, Voice, Long

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• The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

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  History, Meat, Middle

  Michel de Montaigne (1850). “Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.217

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• 'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.

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  Educational, Mean, Men

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• Habit is second nature.

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  Nature, Habit

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

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• But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

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  Dream, Art, Nature

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• True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.

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  Freedom, School, Self Confidence

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• For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.

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  Educational, Choices, Soul

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• It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.

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  Writing, Essence, Deeds

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.274, Stanford University Press

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• Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes; nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.

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  Sky, Weather, Clothes

  "Complete Essays".

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• T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past.

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  Past, Might, States

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.698, Delphi Classics

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• If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

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  Love, Men, Giving

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.256, Xist Publishing

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• There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

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  Desire, Natural, Plus

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• In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.

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  Book, Use, Asks

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.301, Stanford University Press

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• The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have no other, and it well answers their purpose. They are often made by fools; still oftener by men who, out of hatred to equality, fail in equity; but always by men, vain and irresolute authors.

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  Men, Law, Hatred

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “The Essays of Montaigne”, p.386

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• The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate.

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  Fate, Law, Heaven

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 12, 1595.

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• No wind favors he who has no destined port.

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  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance

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  Pride, Giving, Inward

  Michel de Montaigne, John Michael Cohen (1959). “Essays”, Penguin Classics

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• In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.

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  Change, Knowledge, Example

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

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  Confidence, Honesty, Integrity

  Michel de Montaigne (1907). “The Essays”

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• No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

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  Communication, Pleasure, Without Communication

  Michel De Montaigne, James B Atkinson, David Sices (2012). “Selected Essays: With La Boetie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude”, p.39, Hackett Publishing

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• How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

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  Inspirational, Criminals, Crime

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.

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  Sea, Rivers, Firsts

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “Selected Essays”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• The thing I fear most is fear.

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  Inspirational, Fear, Political

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.53, Stanford University Press

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• There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

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  Writing, Vanity, Obvious

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.721, Stanford University Press

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• The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

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  Drinking, Opportunity, Mind

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.376, 谷月社

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