Behavior Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

10 Behavior quotes by Michel de Montaigne

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Montaigne’s Renaissance skepticism shows up in ten short musings on behavior, each line a compact essay‑like thought. The collection offers a taste of his probing, human‑centered philosophy.

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The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.

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The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.

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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?"…

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There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to…

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A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist…

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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity…

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Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most…

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I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.

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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words…

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No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

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The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have…

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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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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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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as…

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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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