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Him Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a…
- 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
- Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him…
- 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…
- In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of…
- 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…
- 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…
- "Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I loved him, I…
- It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him…
- To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
- The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most…
- A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after…
- Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him.
- Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to…
- If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
- I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is…
- No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
- If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making…
- Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.
- That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for…
- No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.
- Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden