"The most profound joy has more of gravity……" — Michel de Montaigne
"The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it."
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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 Gaiety Quotes
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Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and…
— Russell Baker
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The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody…
— Samuel Johnson
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Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.
— Michel de Montaigne
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I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned…
— Ronnie Corbett
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At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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What I got was not so much gifts and whishes come trues but a feeling of peace. I got peace…
— Peggy Noonan
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Gaiety is one of the most important elements I brought to fashion. I brought it through color.
— Emilio Pucci
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Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds.
— Dorothy Draper
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When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls,…
— Baroness Orczy
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