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Known Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

11 Known quotes by Michel de Montaigne

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Montaigne’s essays often wander into the familiar, and here his reflections on what we already understand reveal his gentle curiosity. This short set of eleven quotes showcases his reflective tone and the subtle depth he brings to common experience.

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The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.

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I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

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“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.”

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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will…

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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how…

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Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion,…

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How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most…

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We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name…

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Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we…

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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom…

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

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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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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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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.

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Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.

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I have a vocabulary all my own. I pass the time when itis wet and disagreeable. Whenit is fine I do not wish to…

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