"I see men ordinarily more eager to discover……" — Michel de Montaigne
"I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so."
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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…
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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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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
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What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and…
— Diane Ackerman
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To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is…
— James A. Baldwin
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When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
— John Barrymore
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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself…
— Saint Basil
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
— L. Frank Baum
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret…
— Joseph Addison
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Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with…
— Martha Beck
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A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and…
— Joseph Addison
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It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because…
— Robert Benchley
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We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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