"Even opinion is of force enough to make……" — Michel de Montaigne
"Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life."
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649 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne has 649 quotes on this site.
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against…
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Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a…
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Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal…
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care…
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many…
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It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole,…
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
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The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it…
— Conrad Black
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Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we…
— Imelda Staunton
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Methought I saw my late espoused saint.
— John Milton
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America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just…
— Henry Louis Gates
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Every trial a man goes through, if he is faithful in that trial and does honor to God and his…
— Lorenzo Snow
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Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of…
— Frederick The Great
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I would just have a different policy than what he has espoused... We need to recognize we are not going…
— Haley Barbour
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He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Feel the underlying meaning of the teachings that are espoused by me or anyone else. The word's don't mean much.…
— Frederick Lenz
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Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that…
— Neal Stephenson
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Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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