Michel de Montaigne

Showing quotations 1 to 20 of 20 total A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself. Michel de MontaigneDon't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved. Michel de MontaigneEach man calls barbarism what is not his own practice for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason that the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in. Michel de MontaigneEven on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom. Michel de MontaigneFashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. Michel de MontaigneHe who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak. Michel de MontaigneHe who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. Michel de Montaigne I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. Michel de MontaigneI prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. Michel de Montaigne No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. Michel de MontaigneNot being able to govern events, I govern myself. Michel de MontaigneNothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. Michel de Montaigne So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation. Michel de MontaigneThe art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure. Michel de Montaigne The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. Michel de MontaigneThe most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. Michel de Montaigne There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. Michel de Montaigne 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. Michel de Montaigne Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass. Michel de Montaigne, 'De l'experience,' 1580-88I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can. Michel de Montaigne, 'De l'utile et de l'honnete,' 1580-88

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Biography
Type: Philosopher
Nationality: French
Born: February 28, 1533
Died: September 13, 1592

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