"The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued…" — Michel De Montaigne
"The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness."
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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 Cheerfulness Quotes
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
— Aristotle
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
— Joseph Addison
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's…
— Joseph Addison
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness…
— Joseph Addison
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Cheerfulness has a directly beneficial influence upon health.
— Grenville Kleiser
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Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness; her state is like the things above the moon, always clear…
— Michel de Montaigne
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