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Michel De Montaigne Inspirational Quotes (585)

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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.
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Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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I honor most those to whom I show least honor and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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The world always looks straights ahead as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward as for me, I roll about in myself.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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