Michel de Montaigne Quotes - Page 13

• It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Women, Cost, Cherish

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.425, 谷月社

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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.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Corn, Toes, Sullen

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

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• Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

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  Medicine, Dying, Physicians

  "Essays", Book II, Chapter XXXVII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 502-04, 1922.

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• It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

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  Mind, Spirited, Contractions

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

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• To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.

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  Book, Character, Winning

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

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• It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Wish, I Love Myself

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• Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.

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  Wise, Fool, Made

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.741

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• Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

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  Philosophical, Men, Words Of Wisdom

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

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• 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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• The soul that has no established aim loses itself

  Michel de Montaigne

  Soul, Aim, Loses

  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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• 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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• Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Silence, Quality, Modesty

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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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• 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.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mean, Men, Principles

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Littles

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• God sends the cold according to the coat.

  Michel de Montaigne

  God, Coats, Cold

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