"I may indeed very well happen to contradict……" — Michel de Montaigne
"I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict."
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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 Contradict Quotes
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I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
— Paul Auster
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
— Francis Bacon
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I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a…
— David Chalmers
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Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their…
— Jonathan Swift
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Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not,…
— George Washington
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At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are…
— Lucretius
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To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously…
— George Orwell
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When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or…
— Frederic Bastiat
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A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free…
— Carl Sagan
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
— Galileo Galilei
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Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
— Antonio Machado
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Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human…
— Thomas Jefferson
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