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Own Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
- When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
- Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
- 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…
- It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on…
- As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make…
- For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and…
- 'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself…
- Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from…
- How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
- No man is a hero to his own valet.
- We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
- We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.
- 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…
- God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
- Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others bring trinkets to…
- Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I look upon all…
- A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place…
- And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of…
- I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
- Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the…
- We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to…
- We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to…
- Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
- 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…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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