QUOTES by Michel Montaigne
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“Why do you judge a man when he is all wrapped up like a parcel? He is letting us see only such attributes as do not belong to him while hiding the only ones which enable us to judge his real worth.”
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“Wonder is the foundation of all... Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.”
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“I am not at all sure whether I would not much rather have given birth to one perfectly formed son by commerce with the Muses than by commerce with my wife.”
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“All the wisdom and reasoning in the world do in the end conclude in this point, to teach us not to fear to die.”
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“Let us never allow ourselves to be carried away so completely by pleasure that we fail to recall from time to time in how many ways our happiness is prey to death and threatened by its grip.”
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“Lying is an accursed vice. It is only our words which bind us together and make us human.”
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“I keep telling myself: anything that can be done some other day can be done today.xiii”
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“I keep telling myself: anything that can be done some other day can be done today.xiii”
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“For I never see the whole of anything; nor do those who promise to show it to us.”
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“In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.”
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“I hail and caress truth in what quarter soever I find it, and cheerfully surrender myself, and open my conquered arms as far off as I can discover it; and, provided it be not too imperiously, take a pleasure in being reproved, and accommodate myself to my accusers, very often more by reason of civility than amendment, loving to gratify and nourish the liberty of admonition by my facility of submitting to it, and this even at my own expense.”
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“[Folly never thinks it has enough, even when it obtains what it desires, but Wisdom is happy with what is to hand and is never vexed with itself.]3”
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“for as I know only too well from experience when we lose those we love there is no consolation sweeter than the knowledge of having remembered to tell them everything and to have enjoyed the most perfect and absolute communication with them.”
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“Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.... The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”
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“Moreover, vulgar and casual opinions are something more than nothing in nature; and he who will not suffer himself to proceed so far, falls, peradventure, into the vice of obstinacy, to avoid that of superstition.”
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“It is taking one's conjectures rather seriously to roast someone alive for them.”
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“Folly is a bad quality; but not to be able to endure it, to fret and vex at it, as I do, is another sort of disease little less troublesome than folly itself; and is the thing that I will now accuse in myself.”
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“If I converse with a strong mind and a rough disputant, he presses upon my flanks, and pricks me right and left; his imaginations stir up mine, jealousy, glory, and contention, stimulate and raise me up to something above myself; and acquiescence is a quality altogether tedious in discourse.”
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“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it”
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“But you do not die because you are sick, you die because you are alive.”
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“The way of truth is one and artless; the way of private gain and success...is double, uneven, and fortuitous.'
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“Many things that I would not care to tell to any individual man I tell to the public, and for knowledge of my most secret thoughts I refer my most loyal friends to a bookseller's stall.”
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“This emperor was arbiter of the whole world at nineteen, and yet would have a man to be thirty before he could be fit to determine a dispute about a gutter.”
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“If you do not know how to die, never trouble yourself; nature will in a moment fully and sufficiently instruct you; she will exactly do that business for you; take no care for it.”
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“As conversation with men is wonderfully helpful, so is a visit to foreign lands...to whet and sharpen our wits by rubbing them upon those of others."--Montaigne”
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“If someone presses me to say why I loved him, I feel that I cannot express it other than by answering, 'Because it was he, because it was I.”
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“[Sweet it is during a tempest when the gales lash the waves to watch from the shore another man’s great striving.]3”
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“Retire within yourselves; but first prepare yourselves to receive yourselves there. It would be madness to trust yourselves to yourselves if you do not know how to control yourselves. There are ways of failing in solitude as well as in company.”
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“I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.”
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“If any one be in rapture with his own knowledge, looking only on those below him, let him but turn his eye upward towards past ages, and his pride will be abated, when he shall there find so many thousand wits that trample him under foot.”
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