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Such Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is…
- Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that…
- Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret…
- There is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman - nor altogether beautiful.
- It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him…
- The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.
- If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
- The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
- Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and…
- There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies…
More Such Quotes
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- A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson
- I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. — David Attenborough
- All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that… — David Attenborough