"We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo.……" — Michel de Montaigne
"We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far."
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Michel de Montaigne
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649 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
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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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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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No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the…
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