"To smell, though well, is to stink." — Michel de Montaigne
"To smell, though well, is to stink."
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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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Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume…
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A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
— Coco Chanel
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Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in…
— Arthur Symons
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If your dad is anything like mine, then you have no clue what to buy him for Father's Day. The…
— Michael Showalter
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Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome…
— Beverley Nichols
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All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!
— William Shakespeare
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I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials.
— Gabriela Sabatini
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Regardless of the reaction of others, one thing is certain: True worship and devotion will make our lives fragrant and…
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume.
— Charles Spurgeon
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'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
— William Cowper
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A second blow of many flowers appears, flowers faintly tinged and breathing no perfume; but fruits, not blossoms, form the…
— James Grahame
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