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Michel De Montaigne Inspirational Quotes (585)

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There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
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Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.
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The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.
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We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.
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