Michel de Montaigne Quotes - Page 11

• One may be humble out of pride.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Humble, Humility, Pride

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.758, Xist Publishing

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• All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honesty, Hurtful, Good Nature

  Michel de Montaigne (1800). “Essays, Selected from Montaigne: With a Sketch of the Life of the Author”, p.124

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• Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Use, Weapons, Dangerous

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.588, 谷月社

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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.

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  Horse, Heart, Soul

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

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• To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Positive, Law Of Attraction, Mind

  "Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays".

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• Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Real, Character, Essence

  Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

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• The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

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  Law, Political, World

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

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• It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.

  Michel de Montaigne

  War, Victory, Ends

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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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• 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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• Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire.

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  Love, Marriage, Smart

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Study, Profit

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

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Science, Men, Proud

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

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• Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Character, Doors, Example

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

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• Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Companionship, Herds, Creatures

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• Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sensuality, Temperance, Seasoning

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• I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Believe, People, Tolerance

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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• Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Humble, School, Eye

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• ... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.

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  Believe, Charity, Belief

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.786, Stanford University Press

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• The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

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  Courage, Navy, Virtue

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

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

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  Powerful, Meditation, Taste

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

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• 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.

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  Men, Practice, Waiting

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

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• The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.

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  Birth, Wells

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 20, 1595.

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• A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.

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  Travel, Journey, Men

  "Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection".

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• I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by too much water or lamps by too much oil; that our minds, held fast and encumbered by so many diverse preoccupations, may well lose the means of struggling free, remaining bowed and bent under the load; except that it is quite otherwise: the more our souls are filled, the more they expand; examples drawn from far-off times show, on the contrary, that great soldiers ad statesmen were also great scholars.

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  Educational, Struggle, Mean

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

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