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Book Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
- All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
- In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of…
- Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
- In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life;…
- I am myself the matter of my book.
- If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a…
- I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am…
- And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of…
- I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
- In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a…
- And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so…
- To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct.…
- In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.
- I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.
- Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
- To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
- There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but…
- When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds…
- What enriches language is its being handled and exploited by beautiful minds-not so much by making innovations as by expanding it through more vigorous and…
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