All Michel de Montaigne Quotes
- My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I… Another Corner
- Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them. Appreciation
- We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far. Ambitious
- Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. Inspirational
- Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind. Anyone
- There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity. Alike
- Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a… Able
- In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. Affection
- It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under… Cowardliness
- He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear. Already Suffers
- Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth. Feareth
- Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies. Denying
- No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest… Active
- Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it. All
- I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so. Discover
- I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together. Brought
- When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly. Clearly
- He who lives not to others, lives little to himself. Funny
- The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness; her state is like the things above the moon, always clear and serene. Always Clear
- The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose. Glorious
- I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures. Avoided
- Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand. Gratification
- Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself. Adapt
- All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me. All
- A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted. Boast
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