"There is more ado to interpret interpretations than……" — Michel de Montaigne
"There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity."
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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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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of…
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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time…
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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does…
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The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.
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The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object…
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There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man…
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The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will…
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Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? And here is…
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or UML or…
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I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or…
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