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Michel De Montaigne Inspirational Quotes (585)

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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction I love myself too well.
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I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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To understand via the heart is not to understand.
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Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.
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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
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I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.
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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
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And not to serve for a table-talk.
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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it
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Death pays all debts.
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To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
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It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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