Michel de Montaigne quotes - page 9

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness. (Michel de Montaigne)
Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me. View quote
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The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. View quote
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On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom. View quote
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A little of all things, but nothing of everything, after the French manner. View quote
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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is, like grace and beauty in the body, which charm at first sight, and lead on to further intimacy and friendship, opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation. View quote
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits. View quote
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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened. View quote
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Every man has within himself the entire human condition. View quote
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Que sçais-je?" (What do I know?) View quote
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Every movement reveals us. (Michel de Montaigne)
No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly. View quote
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Why do people respect the package rather than the man? View quote
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No wind favors he who has no destined port. View quote
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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life. View quote
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Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures. View quote
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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance. View quote
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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement. View quote
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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own. View quote
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I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it. View quote
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To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things. (Michel de Montaigne)
When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing. View quote
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There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers. View quote
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Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies. View quote
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Let every foot have its own shoe. View quote
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