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Michel De Montaigne Inspirational Quotes (584)

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Long life, and short, are by death made all one for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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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 tied them together.
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Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.
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As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.
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