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Place Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I…
- Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
- Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in company; morning and…
- For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
- The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper…
- Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.
- Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
- Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
- It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty…
- Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for…
- There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but…
- When a man's talk is commonplace and his writings uncommon, it means that his talent lies in the place from which he borrows it, and…
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- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden