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Out Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
- One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
- Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him…
- True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet…
- There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment…
- The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
- It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
- The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest…
- Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
- It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the…
- We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to…
- The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
- He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
- If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out…
- Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes…
- 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…
- Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
- I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
- One may be humble out of pride.
- [Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
- It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have…
- Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and…
- Marriage...we cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to…
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