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Michel De Montaigne Inspirational Quotes (585)

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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
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We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
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It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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