"The reverse side of truth has a hundred……" — Michel de Montaigne
"The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits."
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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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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how…
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Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers…
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It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
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I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning.…
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human…
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate…
— David Bohm
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
— Edward de Bono
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The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of…
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Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims…
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Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
— Italo Calvino
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