World Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

— Michel de Montaigne

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

— Michel de Montaigne

A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.

— Michel de Montaigne

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.

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All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

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On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining…

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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

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Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world…

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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!

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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world…

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The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being…

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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble…

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The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best…

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Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within…

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I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion,…

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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things,…

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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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It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must…

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I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since…

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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like…

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Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been…

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Whenever a new finding is reported to the world people say - It is probably not true. Later on, when the reliability…

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The world always looks straights ahead; as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy.…

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Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth…

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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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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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Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within…

— Michel de Montaigne

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.

— Michel de Montaigne

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them…

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As for extraordinary things, all the provision in the world would not suffice.

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As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.

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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

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What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?

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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.

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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is…

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An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise…

— Michel de Montaigne