"I must use these great men's virtues as……" — Michel de Montaigne
"I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness."
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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 Cloak Quotes
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Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side.…
— Robert Byrd
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it…
— Willa Cather
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The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
— Margaret Cho
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How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't-at least not in the moment. I don't think…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The cloak of naiveté was the uniform of our success: we didn't know it couldn't be done.
— Unknown Author
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Shame is pride's cloak.
— William Blake
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Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other,…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak
— Juvenal
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I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that…
— Thomas S. Monson
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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