Michel de Montaigne quotes - page 13

I want us to be doing things, prolonging life's duties as much as we can. I want death to find me planting my cabbages, neither worrying about it nor the unfinished gardening. (Michel de Montaigne)
Non pudeat dicere, quod non pudet sentire: "Let no man be ashamed to speak what he is not ashamed to think." View quote
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Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough. View quote
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What know I? View quote
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself. View quote
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics. View quote
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible. View quote
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To call out for the hand of the enemy is a rather extreme measure, yet a better one, I think, than to remain in continual fever over an accident that has no remedy. But since all the precautions that a man can take are full of uneasiness and uncertainty, it is better to prepare with fine assurance for the worst that can happen, and derive some consolation from the fact that we are not sure that it will happen. View quote
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Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men. View quote
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The word is half his that speaks, And half his that hears it. View quote
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It is easier to sacrifice great than little things. (Michel de Montaigne)
The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing. View quote
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many. View quote
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A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity. View quote
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All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly. View quote
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Dreams are the true Interpreters of our Inclinations But there is Art required to sort and understand them. View quote
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Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying. View quote
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Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom. View quote
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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 it. View quote
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him. View quote
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Whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present. (Michel de Montaigne)
Man is certainly stark mad he cannot make a flea, And yet he will be making gods by dozens. View quote
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What do I know. View quote
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The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable. View quote
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Art and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found And perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing. View quote
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