Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“The majority of our polities, as Aristotle says, are like the Cyclops, abandoning the guidance of the women and children to each… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“I know nothing about education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“You never speak about yourself without loss. Your self-condemnation is always accredited, your self-praise discredited. There may be some people of my… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Let the tutor not merely require a verbal account of what the boy has been taught but the meaning and the substance… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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