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Known Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in…
- Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other…
- If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a…
- I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.
- 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…
- We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's…
- Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
- Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language,…
- The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
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- The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- God is best known in not knowing him. — Saint Augustine
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
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- I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way… — Tallulah Bankhead
- I can tell you that I'd rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I've known. — Bob Barker
- On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. — Christiaan Barnard
- Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking. — Bernard Baruch
- Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been… — Bernard Baruch