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Cannot Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- 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…
- We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part…
- Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.
- Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
- Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that…
- An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
- A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.
- We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to…
- Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
- We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
- Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
- If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice,…
- We cannot fail in following nature.
- Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must…
- It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put…
- Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
- We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
- Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
- If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because…
- An unattempted woman cannot boast of her chastity
- We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
- Marriage...we cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to…
- Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
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- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
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- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden