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Michel De Montaigne Quotes - Page 12
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable "Hoc" produced for the world!
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Doubt
Important
World
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I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.
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Learning
Book
Study
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No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
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Men
Truth
Honesty
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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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Actions
Deemed
Noted
Plays
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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Ambition
Plague
Shows
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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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Freedom
Men
Solitude
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Marriage
Wedding
Bird
Cages
Desperate
Inside
Like
Get
Birds
Those
Out
Cage
Equally
Sees
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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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Happiness
Lying
Opinion
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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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Keeping Secrets
Thinking
Thoughtful
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The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.
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Happiness
Beautiful
Soul
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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Change
Smile
Different
Something New
Tomorrow
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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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Confidence
God
Smile
Men
Evidence
Favors
Light
Virtue
Willingly
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Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
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Friendship
Rivals
Soul
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There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
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Desire
Natural
Plus
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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Fancy
Repentance
Way
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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Art
Mind
Stupidity
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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Differences
Mean
World
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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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Judging
Political
Popular Vote
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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Life
Numbers
Years
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I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.
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Wisdom
Behaviour
Gay
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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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Fashion
Law
Should
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Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.
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Ethics
Evil
Words Of Wisdom
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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Hate
Judgment
Vices
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Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.
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Men
Certain
Self
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He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.
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Husband
Understanding
Wife
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It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
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Blow
Cowardice
Holes
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..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.
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Men
Satisfaction In Life
Years
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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Art
Happiness
Inspirational Life
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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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Greatness
Knowing
Soul
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Inspirational
Freedom
Being Yourself
Conform
Lethargy
Senses
Finer
Steals
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I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
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Flower
Philosophy
Together
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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 worse engine far.
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War
Ambition
Ambitious
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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War
Fall
Reason
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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Men
Diversity
Uniforms
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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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Advice
Humility
Way
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Action
Conditions
Confession
Dare
Ugly
Worst
Actions
Base
Seem
Unto
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Dream
Eye
Real
Real Life
Soul
Life Love Soul
Eyes
Gave
Seem
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For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.
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Men
Air
Draws
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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Men
Mother
Nursing
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It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago.
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Death
Alive
Years
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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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Desire
Needs
Use
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We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
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Believe
Knows
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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Poetry
Philosophical
Philosophy
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Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.
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Communication
Half
Listening
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Activity
Children
Games
Playing Games
Serious
Seen
Noted
Playing
Serious-Minded
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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Bees
Insects
Office
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When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.
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Marriage
Surprise
Wife
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I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.
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Chance
Commit
Consultation
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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Life
Complaining
Past
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I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.
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Moving
Self
Soul
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