"The soul which has no fixed purpose in……" — Michel de Montaigne
"The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere."
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Michel de Montaigne
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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 Everywhere Quotes
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
— Isaac Asimov
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
— Irving Babbitt
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I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things.
— Antonio Banderas
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Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.
— Brigitte Bardot
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Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although…
— Dave Barry
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The examples of the Obama Administration 'stimulating' jobs everywhere on the planet except here in America are endless.
— Bob Beauprez
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the…
— Beck
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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I love just how beautiful Vancouver is. I mean, everywhere you look it's just mountains and ocean.
— Emma Bell
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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are…
— Warren G. Bennis
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This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too,…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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