"We only labor to stuff the memory, and……" — Michel de Montaigne
"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
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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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If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he…
— Francis of Assisi
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I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this…
— David Attenborough
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
— Richard Bach
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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their…
— Walter Bagehot
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
— Honore de Balzac
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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
— Honore de Balzac
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to…
— Ingmar Bergman
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become…
— Bono
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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
— Bono
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