"It is a thorny undertaking, and more so……" — Michel de Montaigne
"It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it."
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Michel de Montaigne
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649 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
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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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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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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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Agitate him and ascertain the pattern of his movement.
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I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.
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Of agitating good roads there is no end, and perhaps this is as it should be, but I think you'll…
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All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate.
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Compassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart.
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The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the…
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Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances
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Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we…
— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
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By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we…
— Henepola Gunaratana
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I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.
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