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Michel De Montaigne Inspirational Quotes (585)

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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.
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In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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We have power over nothing except our will.
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long, and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould
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Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.
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Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]
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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
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What am I to choose? Choose what you please, as long as you choose. There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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