"I want death to find me planting my…" — Michel De Montaigne
"I want death to find me planting my cabbage."
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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 Cabbage Quotes
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one of 88 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
— Ambrose Bierce
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'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax…
— Lewis Carroll
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Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody…
— Bill Vaughan
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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
— Mark Twain
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Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage…
— John le Carre
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The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato…
— Anthony Burgess
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Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage,…
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever.
— Rick DeMarinis
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Brains, like cabbages, are beautiful-but in a different way. Cabbage heads are dumb and sterile, whereas brains are personal, intelligent…
— Carl Pfeiffer
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of…
— Robert Graves
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Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
— David McCullough
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