Michel de Montaigne Quotes - Page 12

• Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

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  Truth, Firsts, Common

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne (107 annotated essays in 1 eBook + The Life of Montaigne + The Letters of Montaigne)”, p.217, e-artnow

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• Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

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  Political, Vices, Made

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• It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

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  Joy, Host, Stubbornness

  Michel de Montaigne (1995). “Four Essays”, Penguin Group USA

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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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• Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.

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  Powerful, Meditation, Mind

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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• It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.

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  Happiness, Giving, Enjoy Life

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• There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

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  Doing Good, Rejoice, Gratification

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.612, Stanford University Press

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• We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally to give way to them, according to their condition and our own, we ought to grant free passage to diseases; and I find they stay less with me who let them alone. And I have lost those which are reputed the most tenacious and obstinate of their own defervescence, without any help or art, and contrary to their rules. Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

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  Art, Giving, Evil

  Michel de Montaigne (1856). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.531

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• Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.

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  Attitude, Wind, Doe

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

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  Paramount, Repose, Gentleness

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

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  Honor, Persons, Loses

  Michel de Montaigne (1979). “Essays”

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• Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.

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  Medicine, Sick, Democracy

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• We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. There is, indeed, a certain low and moderate sort of poetry, that a man may well enough judge by certain rules of art; but the true, supreme, and divine poesy is equally above all rules and reason. And whoever discerns the beauty of it with the most assured and most steady sight sees no more than the quick reflection of a flash of lightning.

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  Art, Writing, Reflection

  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.126

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• I am myself the matter of my book.

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  Book, Matter

  Essais "Au Lecteur" (1580)

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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.

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  Death, Book, People

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• Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.

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  Men, Self, Arrogance

  Michel de Montaigne (1973). “Selections from the Essays”, Harlan Davidson

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• The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

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  Wisdom, Moon, States

  "The Works of Michael de Montaigne".

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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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• To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

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  Death, Oneself

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• Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.

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  Poison, Venom, Malice

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.827, 谷月社

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• I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

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  Book, Learning, Study

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.494, Stanford University Press

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• To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

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  Men, Speak Less, Pay

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.614, Delphi Classics

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• Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.

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  Hate, Vices, Judgment

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• It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

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  Perfection, Divine, Enjoy

  "Complete Essays".

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• Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.

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  Attitude, Law Of Attraction, Events

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