"There is some shadow of delight and delicacy……" — Michel de Montaigne
"There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy."
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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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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing…
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Water, whether still or in motion, has so great an attraction for the lover of nature, that the most beautiful…
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There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture;…
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It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds.…
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I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their…
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Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own…
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Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only…
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To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening,…
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Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the…
— Elizabeth Robins Pennell
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A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system…
— Unknown Author
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You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the…
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The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for…
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