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Very Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person…
- The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination…
- It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
- 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…
- .. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted…
- I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true…
- It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
- There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
- Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.
- A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can…
- Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without…
- 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…
- I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
- Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of…
- Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform…
- 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…
- It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.
- We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it,…
- He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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