Michel de Montaigne quotes - page 7

Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery. (Michel de Montaigne)
I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have. View quote
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As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge. View quote
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A man may be humble through vainglory. View quote
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As for extraordinary things, all the provision in the world would not suffice. View quote
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force. View quote
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What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond? View quote
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life. View quote
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All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me. View quote
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The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene. View quote
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We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn. (Michel de Montaigne)
The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried. View quote
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I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together. View quote
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre? View quote
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It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune. View quote
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All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate. View quote
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget. View quote
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Whatever can be done another day can be done today. View quote
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word. View quote
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself. View quote
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As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man. (Michel de Montaigne)
For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts. View quote
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Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life. View quote
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We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge. View quote
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge. View quote
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