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Used Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those…
- 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…
- Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the…
- When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her…
- Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others bring trinkets to…
- Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see…
- To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death…
- To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death…
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