Quotes by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

French essayist and philosopher

Lived from: 1533 - 1592

Category: Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 10 march 1533 Died: 13 september 1592

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  • Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
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  • 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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  • Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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  • Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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  • Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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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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  • Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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  • From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
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  • He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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  • How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?
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  • I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing.
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  • I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
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  • I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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  • I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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  • I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.
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  • I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.
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  • I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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  • I quote others in order to better express myself.
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  • I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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  • I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.
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