Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Quotes


162 quotes:

"All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me."
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"Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people."
Author: Montaigne Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes
"Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly."
Author: Montaigne Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes Moderation Quotes
"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
Author: Montaigne Quotes Category: Virtue Quotes
"Virtue craves a steep and thorny path."
Author: Montaigne Quotes Category: Virtue Quotes
"There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life."
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"From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion."
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"The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty."
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"Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most."
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"I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older"
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"A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey."
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"Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth."
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"The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness"
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"He who lives not to others, lives little to himself."
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"I quote others in order to better express myself."
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"The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose."
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"The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere."
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"There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God."
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"Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable."
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"It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one."
Author: Montaigne Quotes Category: Poet Quotes

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