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Many Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
- No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest…
- 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…
- Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
- I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by…
- The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
- Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried…
- How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
- If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a…
- Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see…
- Is it not a noble farce, where kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast…
- It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
- The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.
- I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one,…
- Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and…
- Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
- It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and…
- How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
- How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
- There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
- How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputation!
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- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
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- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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