"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make……" — Michel De Montaigne
"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens."
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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 Cannot Make Quotes
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I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at…
— Julianna Baggott
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We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
— Samuel Adams
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Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of…
— Pearl S. Buck
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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
— Thomas Carlyle
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the…
— Marc Chagall
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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed…
— Carl Sagan
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You cannot make a mistake, you can only make a decision that will be your next best step.
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look,…
— William Hazlitt
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Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports.
— Sun Tzu
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