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Michel De Montaigne Inspirational Quotes (585)

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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
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We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover he only beats the water for another's net.
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Every movement reveals us.
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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
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Men are nothing until they are excited.
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'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
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One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
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I do not teach. I relate.
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God defend me from myself.
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