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Michel de Montaigne has 666 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest…
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Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine…
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Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is…
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken…
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden…
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It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to…
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
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To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
— Aeschylus
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If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we…
— Franz Kafka
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Haiti is 10.4-million people, of whom 35 per cent are children under 15. The country has always had great potential - and…
— Laurent Lamothe
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To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.
— Aeschylus
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The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good…
— William Dampier
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Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder…
— Thomas a Kempis
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Ill fortune seldom comes alone.
— John Dryden
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I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune…
— Mary Hart
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the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he…
— Jane Austen
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
— Ben Jonson
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Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
— David Mallet
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