"The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence……" — Michel de Montaigne
"The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it."
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649 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
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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 Abhorrence Quotes
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An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.
— Arthur W. Pink
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I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do…
— Patrick Henry
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It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full…
— William Godwin
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You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at…
— Blaise Pascal
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Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.
— Edward Heath
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The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
— Bergen Evans
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In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards…
— John Sergeant Wise
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Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons,…
— Joseph Rotblat
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I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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There's no abhorrence about wearing M&S. We just haven't been delighting the girls.
— Stuart Rose
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Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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