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Michel De Montaigne Inspirational Quotes (585)

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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.
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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
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The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
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We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all they will chew our meat for us.
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The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat
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The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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