Michel de Montaigne Quotes - Page 26

• To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.

  Michel de Montaigne

  God, Honor, Religion

  Michel de Montaigne (1964). “Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio”

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• Learning is not to be tacked to the mind, but we must fuse and blend them together, not merely giving the mind a slight tincture, but a thorough and perfect dye. And if we perceive no evident change and improvement, it would be better to leave it alone; learning is a dangerous weapon, and apt to wound its master if it be wielded by a feeble hand, and by one not well acquainted with its use.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Learning, Hands, Giving

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• I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am myself the matter of my book.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fashion, Book, Simple

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.2, Stanford University Press

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• "Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -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, Companionship, Conversation

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• The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

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  History, Events, Command

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• 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

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  Pain, Giving, Mind

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.282, 谷月社

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• A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.

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  Chastity, Tempted, Boast

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.884, 谷月社

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• Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Health, Loss

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• There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.

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  Shining, Soul, Genius

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.132, Courier Corporation

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• There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

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  Fear, Passion, Worry

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.208, Stanford University Press

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• I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

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  Life, Success, Lying

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.901, Delphi Classics

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• The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.

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  Circumstances, Plans, Depends

  Michel de Montaigne (1949). “Selected Essays: The Charles Cotton - W.C. Hazlitt Translation, Rev. and Edited, with an Introd”

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• The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Land, Stranger, Natural

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• I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pain, Pleasure, Avoided

  Michel de Montaigne, James Hain Friswell (1866). “Essays by Montaigne. [A selection.] Edited, compared, revised, and annotated by the Author of “The Gentle Life” [J. H. Friswell].”, p.318

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• Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

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  Overcoming, Natural, Altered

  Michel de Montaigne, John Michael Cohen (1959). “Essays”, Penguin Classics

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• There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other

  Michel de Montaigne

  Responsibility, Sides, Ethics

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• The whole idea we have for their chastity is ridiculous. They would have to become numb and invisible to please us. I don't know whether the exploits of Alexander and Caesar really surpass the resolution of a beautiful young woman, bred up in the light and commerce of our society, who still keeps herself whole. There is no doing so hard as not doing.

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  Beautiful, Ideas, Light

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

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• I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

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  Philosophy, Flower, Together

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1845). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices, &c. &c”, p.489

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• Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

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  Past, Age, Prejudice

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• Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.

  Michel de Montaigne

  May, Vexation, Stills

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• Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

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  Nature, Experience, Littles

  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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• [Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

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  Marriage, Bird, Despair

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.873, 谷月社

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• It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.

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  Writing, Easier, Indifferent

  Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton (1711). “Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,”, p.325

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• He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.

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  Ignorance, Sea, Rivers

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “Selected Essays”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Cat, Hands, Pleasure

  "The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy".

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