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French Moralist Inspirational Quotes (1561)

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Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
Blaise Pascal
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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
Michel de Montaigne
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Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.
Antoine Rivarol
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Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
Blaise Pascal
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A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.
Michel de Montaigne
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All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.
Blaise Pascal
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
Michel de Montaigne
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
Michel de Montaigne
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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.
Jean de la Bruyere
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We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
Michel de Montaigne
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Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
Blaise Pascal
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The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
Michel de Montaigne
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Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.
Jean de la Bruyere
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
Michel de Montaigne
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
Michel de Montaigne
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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
Jean de la Bruyere
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All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.
Blaise Pascal
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Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony
Blaise Pascal
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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.
Michel de Montaigne
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