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Often Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
- It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.
- Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those…
- Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
- Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that…
- How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we…
- Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain…
- To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death…
- Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
- To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death…
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- Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. — Arthur Ashe
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