Michel de Montaigne Quotes - Page 13

• It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.

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  Fashion, Law, Should

  Michel de Montaigne (1811). “The Essays of Michael de Montaigne”, p.125

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• To philosophize is to learn to die.

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  Death, Philosophical, Dies

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.

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  Daughter, Home, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (1956). “Autobiography: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times ...”

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• Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them; 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.

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  Appreciation, Benefits, Taste

  "Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne".

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• I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.

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  Men, Weakness, Use

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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• The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.

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  Men, Knowing, Curiosity

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.535

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• A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.

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  Men, Thinking, Good Company

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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.

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  Men, Names, Perfection

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

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• Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

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  Ease, Path, Virtue

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• He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.

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  Wisdom, Powerful, Emotional

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.840, Stanford University Press

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• We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be in our power, and indeed there is nothing really in our own power except the will: on this are necessarily based and founded all the principles that regulate the duty of man.

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  Mean, Men, Principles

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• Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise.

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  Judging, Soul, Matter

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• Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.

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  Doe, Coins, Useless

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.262, 谷月社

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• God sends the cold according to the coat.

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  God, Coats, Cold

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• He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.

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  Littles

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• I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.

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  Love, Fashion, Simple

  Michel de Montaigne (1893). “The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne”

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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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• We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.

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  Games, Play, Moments

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.244, Stanford University Press

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• I would have every man write what he knows and no more.

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  Writing, Men, Knows

  Michel de Montaigne (2014). “Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection”, p.59, New York Review of Books

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• Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

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  Life, Dream, Sleep

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• If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.

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  Love, Life, Friendship

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 28, 1595.

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• All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.

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  Humility, Advice, Way

  Michel de Montaigne (2009). “Essays”, p.1603, The Floating Press

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• I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.

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  Victory, Complaining, Fortune

  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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• Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

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  Mean, Soul, Quality

  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.168

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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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