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Better Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
- I quote others in order to better express myself.
- The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.
- It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
- I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
- An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.
- Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
- Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
- We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned.
- I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious…
- Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of…
- Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
- I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
- I quote others only to better express myself.
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