"I know well what I am fleeing from……" — Michel de Montaigne
"I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of."
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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 object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in…
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The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares…
— Katarina Witt
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It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an…
— Arthur Koestler
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Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will…
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.
— Jacques Barzun
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Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself.…
— Harriet Lerner
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It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon.…
— Walker Percy
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Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.
— Rollo May
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Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.
— Gloria Steinem
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