Michel Eyquem De Montaigne (1533-1592, French philosopher, essayist) |
Self-Pity |
| Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being.
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| Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.
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Possessions |
| Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.
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Talkativeness |
| One can say too much even on the best of subjects.
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Repentance |
| One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
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Philosophers and Philosophy |
| Philosophy is doubt.
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Poverty and the Poor |
| Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.
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Royalty |
| Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it is all I require of them.
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Adversity |
| Riches, like glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.
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Pleasure |
| Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.
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Critics and Criticism |
| Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
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Theory |
| Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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Self-Acceptance |
| Souls that are regular and strong of themselves are rare.
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Money |
| Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.
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Prayers |
| The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm, "0 God, you will save me if you wish, but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight."
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Beauty |
| The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.
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Cheerfulness |
| The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.
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Confidence |
| The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Riches |
| The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.
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Life and Living |
| The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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Marriage |
| A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Acceptance |
| A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.
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Travel and Tourism |
| A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.
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Bragging |
| A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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Potential |
| A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Sex and Sexuality |
| After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
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Age and Aging |
| Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Fame |
| All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
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Writing and Writers |
| All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.
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Ambition |
| Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Chastity |
| An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
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Dreams and Dreaming |
| But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
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Confidence |
| Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.
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Cowards and Cowardice |
| Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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Death and Dying |
| Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Perseverance |
| Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.
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Desire |
| Desires increase as they are fulfilled.
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Perception |
| Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best, and he answered, "Somebody else's."
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Death and Dying |
| Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
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Girls |
| Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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Success |
| Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
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Books and Reading |
| Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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Wisdom |
| Every day, I hear fools say things that are not foolish.
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Example |
| Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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Philosophers and Philosophy |
| Extremity of philosophy is hurtful.
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Servants |
| Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Children |
| For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Fools and Foolishness |
| Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Virtue |
| From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is come from self-opinion.
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Acceptance |
| Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
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