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Michel De Montaigne Inspirational Quotes (585)

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In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota for my knowledge I cannot answer.
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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
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In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.
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To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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