"Health is a precious thing, and the only……" — Michel de Montaigne
"Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it."
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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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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
— Aristotle
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and…
— Paul Auster
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
— Frederic Bastiat
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no…
— Felix Adler
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A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it…
— Ben Bernanke
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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
— Theodor Adorno
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When you're fund-raising for schools, then something's wrong. We seem to have lost some sort of sense of what the…
— Lewis Black
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The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.
— John Bruton
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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
— James Buchan
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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
— John Bunyan
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Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price…
— Albert Camus
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