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Michel De Montaigne Inspirational Quotes (585)

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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity we are not so wretched as we are base
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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
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