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Michel De Montaigne Inspirational Quotes (585)

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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.
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How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.
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Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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The soul that has no established aim loses itself
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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Knowledge is an excellent drug but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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