"We find our energies are actually cramped when……" — Michel de Montaigne
"We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed."
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Michel de Montaigne
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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 Cramped Quotes
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One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail…
— John C. Wright
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The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the…
— Unknown Author
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Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged…
— Casey Affleck
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Who's straight? I'm not. I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at, and squeezed into this funny shape. Each life…
— Martin Amis
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What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and…
— Oprah Winfrey
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Life at home is cramped and dirty, it is difficult to live a spiritual life completely, perfect and pure in…
— Gautama Buddha
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The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into…
— Caspar David Friedrich
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Other factors affecting the '109 as a combat plane include the small cramped cockpit. This is quite a tiring working…
— Mark Hanna
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your…
— Anne Lamott
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There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when…
— A J Muste
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No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your…
— Steve Tesich
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