"To make a crooked stick straight, we bend……" — Michel de Montaigne
"To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way."
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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 Bend Quotes
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires,…
— Honore de Balzac
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In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because…
— Gerry Adams
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You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves…
— Bono
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
— Barbara Bush
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
— Albert Camus
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books:…
— Isabel Allende
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I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record…
— Tori Amos
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We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest…
— Yasser Arafat
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Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and…
— Edgar Lee Masters
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Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and my purposes, and bend his…
— Dwight L. Moody
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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own…
— Andrew Jackson
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