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Michel de Montaigne has 666 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest…
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Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine…
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Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is…
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken…
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden…
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It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to…
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It…
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Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose…
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The trusts and combinations - the communism of pelf - whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should…
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Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition,…
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As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They…
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