"We are never present with, but always beyond……" — Michel de Montaigne
"We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future."
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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 Always Beyond Quotes
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Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief.
— Rae Armantrout
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The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.
— Mary Ritter Beard
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If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our…
— Thomas Merton
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Spirituality points, always, beyond: beyond the ordinary, beyond possession, beyond the narrow confines of the self, and - above all…
— Ernest Kurtz
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Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.
— Epicurus
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Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing…
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The gods where like the weather; sometimes good, sometimes bad, and either way, always beyond her.
— Michelle Sagara
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The conflict will always beyond ur strength.The enemy always pushes us beyond our personal, inbred, preset limits concerning how far…
— Francis Frangipane
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Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly,…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly,…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly,…
— Chinonso Atuigwe
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