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His Own Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- 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…
- 'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself…
- Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from…
- No man is a hero to his own valet.
- God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
- A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place…
- Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the…
- 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…
- The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or…
- Everyone can play the mummer's part, and represent an honest personage on the stage; but inwardly, within his own bosom, where all is permitted us,…
More His Own Quotes
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as… — Teresa of Avila
- Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility… — Irving Babbitt
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann
- A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. — Francis Bacon
- An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he… — Walter Bagehot
- He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest. — Abu Bakr