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Wells Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a…
- No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest…
- The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure no slight pleasure.
- I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by…
- But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch his pupil and…
- 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 smell, though well, is to stink.
- 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…
- There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in well-doing, that gives…
- Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by…
- I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
- Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to…
- I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
- I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life…
- There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought…
- There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.
More Wells Quotes
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong