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Things 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.
- The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness; her state is like the things above the moon, always clear and serene.
- Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
- We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part…
- The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
- It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
- The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.
- 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…
- The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
- Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
- Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
- 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…
- Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
- 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…
- Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
- Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of…
- Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
- Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.
- The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that…
- Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and…
- A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
- 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…
- Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
- To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle