Michel de Montaigne Quotes - Page 4

• The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Thinking, Knowing

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• And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Reading, Reflection

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• Every man has within himself the entire human condition

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Human Condition, Humans

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• We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Needs, Interpretation

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• Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honor, Persons, Loses

  Michel de Montaigne (1979). “Essays”

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• I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Study, Physics, Metaphysics

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• He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Degrees, Doe

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, Men, Fool

  Michel de Montaigne (1811). “The essays of Michael de Montaigne”, p.166

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• A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

  Michel de Montaigne

  School, Men, Study

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.352

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• We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Life And Death, Trouble

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

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• As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Spring, Soul, Agitation

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• Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Confidence, Philosophical, Goodness

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

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• As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Possession

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• My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

  Michel de Montaigne

  War, Home, Soul

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• I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Discovery, Finding Yourself, Fleeing

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• When we have got it, we want something else.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Want Something, Want, Satisfaction

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “The Essays of Montaigne”, p.480, BookRix

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• Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Evil, Weakness, Wickedness

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• Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ruins, Taught, Impatience

  Michel de Montaigne, Donald Murdoch Frame (1963). “Essays and Selected Writings”

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• When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Funny, Humor, Cat

  Essais bk. 2, ch. 12 (1580)

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• Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wine, Men, Giving

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• Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Kings, Philosopher

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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• A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Men, Endure

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• Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hate, Men, Law

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• My art and profession is to live.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Art, Profession

  Michel de Montaigne (1967). “The Essays of Montaigne”

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• In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Friendship, True Friend

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.746, Stanford University Press

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