Michel de Montaigne Quotes - Page 9

• It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sacrifice, Littles, Little Things

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• To philosophize is to doubt.

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  Doubt

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.251, Stanford University Press

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• Of all human and ancient opinions concerning religion, that seems to me the most likely and most excusable, that acknowledged God as an incomprehensible power, the original and preserver of all things, all goodness, all perfection, receiving and taking in good part the honour and reverence that man paid him, under what method, name, or ceremonies soever.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Names, Perfection

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.536, 谷月社

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• The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.

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  Fear, World

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Exercise, Doe

  Michel de Montaigne, Marvin Lowenthal (1999). “The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times : His Childhood, Youth, and Prime : His Adventures in Love and Marriage, at Court, and in Office, War, Revolution, and Plague : His Travels at Home and Abroad : His Habits, Tastes, Whims, and Opinions”, p.165, David R. Godine Publisher

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• A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, Wisdom, Loss

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 462-63, Essays, Of Solitude, 1922.

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• The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

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  World, Saws, Perpetual

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

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• Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hypocrisy, Preacher, Sermons

  "The Essays of Michel de Montaigne".

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• There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Respect, Ties, Tree

  Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). “Essays [tr. by Cotton”, p.115

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• The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

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  Beauty, Men, Stature

  Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). “Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator”, p.525

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• Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

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  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom

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

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• If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.

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  Heart, Yield, Self

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• The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Profound, Joy, Gravity

  Michel de Montaigne, Antoine JAY (1842). “The Complete Works of Michael de Montaigne; Comprising; the Essays, Translated by Cotton; the Letters; the Journey Into Germany and Italy, Now First Translated; a Life by the Editor; Notes: ... Critical Opinions; ... the Éloges of MM. Jay and Villemain; a”, p.313

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• The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, or to dispute, forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor. From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.

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  Spring, Simple, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.511, 谷月社

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• Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.

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  Men, Fickle, Vain

  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.2

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• A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Meditation, Solitude

  'Essais' (1580) bk. 1, ch. 39

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• Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Horse, Heart, Soul

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.157, Stanford University Press

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• If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Book, People

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• It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

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  Science, Men, Proud

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.518

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• I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

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  Life, Success, Truth

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 2, 1595.

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• A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.

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  Inspirational, Strong, Opportunity

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• The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.

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  Educational, Study, Profit

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

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• No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

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  Silly, Men, Belief

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 1, 1595.

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• If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

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  Corn, Toes, Sullen

  Michel de Montaigne (1908). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

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• Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Thinking, Thoughtful

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