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Michel De Montaigne Inspirational Quotes (585)

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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: Shut up, he said, so that they do not realize that you are here with me.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The most universal quality is diversity.
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To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences they always receive me with the same kindness.
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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