"Every abridgement of a good book is a…" — Michel de Montaigne
"Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged."
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Michel de Montaigne
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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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More Abridged Quotes
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one of 17 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
— Charles Babbage
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There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.
— Dave Barry
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Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
— Berkeley Breathed
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The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion…
— James Madison
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All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so;…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of…
— James Madison
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In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names…
— Arthur Koestler
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Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state…
— Alice Paul
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Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of…
— Jason Epstein
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By the laws of rectitude accused Persons, however atrocious their offences, are allowed to make their defence, and by a…
— Judith Sargent Murray
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The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the…
— James Madison
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