"There is no so wretched and coarse a……" — Michel de Montaigne
"There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine."
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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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Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular…
— Charles Babbage
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The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days…
— Lord Chesterfield
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The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is…
— Peter Høeg
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Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin;…
— Willa Cather
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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still…
— Confucius
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Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of…
— Thomas de Quincey
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The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display…
— Laozi
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What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why…
— Hester Lynch Piozzi
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The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common…
— Canvass White
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Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and…
— Plutarch
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We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which…
— Carl Bernstein
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