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All things Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

11 All things quotes by Michel de Montaigne

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Montaigne’s musings capture the everyday and the profound in a handful of crisp lines. Though the set is brief, each sentence offers a window into his skeptical, humanist outlook, making it a handy primer for anyone curious about his take on life’s many facets.

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The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.

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A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.

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Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their.

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Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.

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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

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Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has…

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The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the…

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The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding…

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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,…

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Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but…

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Of all human and ancient opinions concerning religion, that seems to me the most likely and most excusable, that acknowledged God as…

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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…

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Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

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The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear…

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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,…

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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world…

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Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

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In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only…

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There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.

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