Michel de Montaigne Quotes - Page 7

• I do not teach. I relate.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Education, Teaching, Teach

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• Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Way, Virtue, Companion

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• Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Powerful, Meditation, Taste

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.955, Xist Publishing

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• God might grant us riches, honours, life, and even health, to our own hurt; for every thing that is pleasing to us is not always good for us. If he sends us death, or an increase of sickness, instead of a cure, Vvrga tua et baculus, tuus ipsa me consolata sunt. "Thy rod and thy staff have comforted me," he does it by the rule of his providence, which better and more certainly discerns what is proper for us than we can do; and we ought to take it in good part, as coming from a wise and most friendly hand.

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  Wise, Hurt, Hands

  Michel de Montaigne (1849). “Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc”, p.295

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• To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere." "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Practice, Waiting

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

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• I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Average, Identity

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• There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wish, Natural, Knows

  "Essais". Book by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 13, 1595.

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• No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Doctors, Pleasure

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.77, Stanford University Press

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• Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Masterpiece, Glorious

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.14, Stanford University Press

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• Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

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  Imagination, Effects, Greater

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.1305, Xist Publishing

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• I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Education, Men, Differences

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• Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Doe, Goodness

  "Essays" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 25, 1595.

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• Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Patience, Wisdom, Limits

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Nature, Garden

  Essais bk. 1, ch. 20 (1580)

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• Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Law, Discipline

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

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• Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stupid, People, Foolishness

  Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

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• There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Evil, Constraints

  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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• If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Reflection, Different, Looks

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.242, Stanford University Press

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• The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.

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  Perfect, Soul, Weakness

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.580, Delphi Classics

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• Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Inspire

  "The Works of Michael de Montaigne".

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• There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

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  Differences, Patchwork

  Michel De Montaigne, James B Atkinson, David Sices (2012). “Selected Essays: With La Boetie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude”, p.12, Hackett Publishing

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• A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Food, Men, Cooking

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• All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

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  Looks, Opinion, Ought

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

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• Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

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  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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

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• I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Respect, Acceptance, Self Reliance

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 16, 1595.

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