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Common Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is…
- As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make…
- We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
- The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
- Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I look upon all…
- The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest…
- And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our…
- Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
- I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life…
- To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death…
- The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.
- To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death…
More Common Quotes
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths… — Sri Aurobindo
- Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so… — Dan Aykroyd
- A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. — Walter Bagehot
- I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire doesn't mean… — Stephen Baldwin