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French Moralist Inspirational Quotes (1561)

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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
Michel de Montaigne
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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Evil is easily discovered there is an infinite variety good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.
Blaise Pascal
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It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Jean de La Fontaine
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The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.
Blaise Pascal
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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
Jean de La Fontaine
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It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
Michel de Montaigne
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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
Michel de Montaigne
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
Michel de Montaigne
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We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity we are not so wretched as we are base
Michel de Montaigne
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I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought he would be a stone or a brute.
Blaise Pascal
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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Blaise Pascal
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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
Michel de Montaigne
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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Tenderness is the infancy of love.
Antoine Rivarol
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
Michel de Montaigne
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Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
Blaise Pascal
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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
Michel de Montaigne
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The war existing between the senses and reason.
Blaise Pascal
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Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.
Blaise Pascal
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