"Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance……" — Michel de Montaigne
"Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning."
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Michel de Montaigne
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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 Bane Quotes
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Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men…
— Joseph Hall
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[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Tedium is the bane of immortality.
— Neil Lowe
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
— Olusegun Obasanjo
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O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.
— George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
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What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.
— Bias of Priene
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
— Walter Savage Landor
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The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization
— Franz Boas
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Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from…
— Chuck Baldwin
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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every…
— Paul David Tripp
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