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Firsts Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination…
- Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those…
- The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die…
- Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by…
- Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth of the new…
- He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
- 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…
- Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which…
- I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.
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