Michel de Montaigne Quotes - Page 6

• The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Opinion, Popularity, Vulgar

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “Selected Essays”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Knows

  Michel de Montaigne (1903*). “Essays of Montaigne”

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• The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Rejoice, Constant, True Wisdom

  Michel de Montaigne (1904). “Great Essays by Montaigne, Sidney, Milton, Cowley, Disraeli, Lamb, Irving, Lowell, Jefferies, and Others”

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• Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Funny, Wise, Humor

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 8, 1595.

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• I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

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  Respect, Acceptance, Self Reliance

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 16, 1595.

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• Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Self, Want, Faces

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• I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other

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  Long, World, Arms

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.999, 谷月社

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• It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Dying, Alarms, Death And Dying

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 13, 1595.

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• The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Exercise, Mind, Opinion

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• Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced? Is it not better to suspend your convictions than to get mixed up in these seditious and quarrelsome divisions?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Errors, Suspense, Division

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.373, Stanford University Press

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• I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Future, Past, Complaining

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.678

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• Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Patience, Wisdom, Limits

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Self, Age, Lifetime

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• The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Flower, Here And There, Thyme

  "Essays", Book I, Chapter XXV, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 598-600, 1922.

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• Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Judging, Way, Opinion

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.150, Stanford University Press

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• There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Terrible, Happened

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• The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Knowledge, Self, Behavior

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• All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lasts

  Michel de Montaigne (1925). “The essays of Montaigne”

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• The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, Men, Long

  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.22

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• The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Would Be, Way, Glory

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.830, 谷月社

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• God might grant us riches, honours, life, and even health, to our own hurt; for every thing that is pleasing to us is not always good for us. If he sends us death, or an increase of sickness, instead of a cure, Vvrga tua et baculus, tuus ipsa me consolata sunt. "Thy rod and thy staff have comforted me," he does it by the rule of his providence, which better and more certainly discerns what is proper for us than we can do; and we ought to take it in good part, as coming from a wise and most friendly hand.

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  Wise, Hurt, Hands

  Michel de Montaigne (1849). “Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc”, p.295

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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 tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

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  Book, Character, Winning

  Michel de Montaigne (1948). “Selections from the essays of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne”

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• If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

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  Reflection, Different, Looks

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.242, Stanford University Press

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• It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

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  Attitude, Fear, Rich Or Poor

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Study, Physics, Metaphysics

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