"Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least……" — Michel de Montaigne
"Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability."
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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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Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain…
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Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
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I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of…
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Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. Just keep knocking on doors until the…
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In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in…
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The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation…
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The constancy of the internal environment is the condition for free and independent life: the mechanism that makes it possible…
— Claude Bernard
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There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It was chilling to realize that the sentimental qualities most valued between people, like loyalty, constancy, and affection, are the…
— Ted Simon
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Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We…
— Winston Churchill
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few…
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