Michel de Montaigne quotes - page 6

For a desperate disease a desperate cure. (Michel de Montaigne)
I want death to find me planting my cabbages. View quote
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures. View quote
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Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots. View quote
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A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity. View quote
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The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods. View quote
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I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own. View quote
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so. View quote
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something. View quote
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself. View quote
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[I]n my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when I complain of the defect of mine, they do not believe me, and reprove me, as though I accused myself for a fool: not discerning the difference betwixt memory and understanding, which is to make matters still worse for me. But they do me wrong; for experience, rather, daily shows us, on the contrary, that a strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment. (Michel de Montaigne)
Truly man is a marvellously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgement on him. View quote
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Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not; others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe. View quote
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And not to serve for a table-talk. View quote
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond. View quote
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There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants. View quote
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It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it. View quote
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there. View quote
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Of all human and ancient opinions concerning religion, that seems to me the most likely and most excusable, that acknowledged God as an incomprehensible power, the original and preserver of all things, all goodness, all perfection, receiving and taking in good part the honour and reverence that man paid him, under what method, name, or ceremonies soever. View quote
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My appetite comes to me while eating. View quote
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us. (Michel de Montaigne)
All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim. View quote
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How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the horror of uninhabitable deserts; who have flung themselves into humiliation, degradation, and the contempt of the world, and have enjoyed these and even sought them out. View quote
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one. View quote
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand. View quote
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