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Greater Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
- Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
- I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.
- We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it
- Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and…
- I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
- I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.
- It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or…
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