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Way Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
- One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
- We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
- For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has…
- There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
- Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing. . . . I do not understand it. . . . Nothing seems true that…
- Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.
- Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
- The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.
- No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
- 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…
- To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
- Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
- The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
- Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
- 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…
- If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
- The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.
- All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due…
- 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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