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Michel De Montaigne Inspirational Quotes (585)

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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
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Others form man I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
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Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
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Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
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God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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It is no hard matter to get children but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
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In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me he does me most good when he does himself good.
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