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Michel De Montaigne Inspirational Quotes (585)

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A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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My art and profession is to live.
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If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.
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Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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