"I would rather be an expert on me…" — Michel de Montaigne
"I would rather be an expert on me than on Cicero"
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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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More Cicero Quotes
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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in…
— Saint Augustine
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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain; Boys are…
— Noah Webster
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He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness...
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter.…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value…
— Thomas Hobbes
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By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our…
— Gerolamo Cardano
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Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues the most capital of all duties, and uses the words grateful and good…
— Unknown Author
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What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of…
— Jean Paul
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In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.
— Saint Augustine
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History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from…
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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