"I am myself the matter of my book." — Michel de Montaigne

"I am myself the matter of my book."

— Michel de Montaigne

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649 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

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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…
Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.
We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a…
Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal…
Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care…
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many…
It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole,…
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
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