Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Quotes
162 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne quotes:
"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know."
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"When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind."
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"Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t"
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"The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage."
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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
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"There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom"
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"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."
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"I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy."
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"No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged."
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"Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible."
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"How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables."
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"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."
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"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk -- they are all part of the curriculum."
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"A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself."
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"Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition."
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"There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves."
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"Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly."
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"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."
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"I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so."
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"Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head"
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