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Michel De Montaigne Inspirational Quotes (585)

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The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.
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He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
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It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
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If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think
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~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~
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There is nothing useless in nature not even uselessness itself
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.
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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
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Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
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Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.
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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
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I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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