"Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live…" — Michel de Montaigne
"Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately."
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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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In honor of Surgeon General Koop's legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political…
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Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts…
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Since the most important element of any concept is that its originating question be appropriately framed, any theory demanding an…
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The internal processes of muscle growth are seriously complicated, people devote their lives to it, but the external processes that…
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Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses…
— William Ames
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If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be…
— David Brewster
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The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it…
— William Buckland
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The most constructive solutions are those which take into consideration the views of all persons involved and are acceptable to…
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... we're not interested in confiscating their guns, as long as they are legitimate gun owners, as long as they…
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If I can't get the captains to respond appropriately and show the leadership I expect, how is anyone else going…
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You must know that I am, of all men who were ever born, the most inclined to love persons. Whenever…
— Michelangelo
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Everything is poisoned, and it's all poisoned from greed. I think our inability to communicate with each other and everything…
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