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Upon Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- 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…
- It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
- 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…
- Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
- Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than…
- It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.
- In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
- Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I look upon all…
- The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
- There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
- Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.
- Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
- Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon…
- If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out…
- Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must…
- Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
- 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…
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