Michel de Montaigne Quotes - Page 24

• Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Fool, Good Book

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• He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.

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  Fall, Fighting, Knees

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• It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

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  Feelings, Sharpness, Exceed

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

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  Law, Customs, Conscience

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• The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.

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  Desire, Needs, Use

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• The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.

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  Men, Society, World

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• Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles.

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  Educational, Soul, Enough

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

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• Habit is a second nature.

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  Habit

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.772, Stanford University Press

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• The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

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  Happiness, Annoyance, Smallest

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• No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.

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  Men, Acquisition, Way

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.351, Delphi Classics

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• Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.

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  Ambition, Shows, Plague

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• Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.

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  Friendship, Soul, Rivals

  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.82

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• Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.

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  Cat, Bags, Matrimony

  "Essays", Book III, Chapter V, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 495-500, 1922.

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• Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.

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  Slavery, Losing, Poor

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.92, 谷月社

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• Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.

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  Light, Practice, Diversity

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.239, Stanford University Press

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• A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

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  Half, Speech, Listeners

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• How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable "Hoc" produced for the world!

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  Doubt, Important, World

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• Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

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  Drinking, Giving, Leisure

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• Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

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  Fear, Suffering

  Michel de Montaigne (1902). “Essayes”

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• To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!

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  Credit, Cold, Gravity

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• If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.

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  Art, Nature, Should

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.

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  Nature, Mean, Science

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

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• A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.

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  Trust, Marriage, Sweet

  Michel de Montaigne (1980). “Essays”

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• I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.

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  Moving, Self, Soul

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.186, Stanford University Press

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• Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.

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  Country, Physicians, Lawyer

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