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Good 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…
- It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
- All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
- Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that…
- Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in company; morning and…
- It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
- Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
- Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it is all I…
- But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch his pupil and…
- I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true…
- Sometimes it is a good choice not to choose at all.
- Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
- Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.
- The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
- After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in…
- How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we…
- Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without…
- We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem…
- If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out…
- There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in well-doing, that gives…
- Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by…
- I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.
- The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding…
- The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
- A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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