Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
French essayist and philosopher
Lived from: 1533 - 1592
Category: Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
France
Born: 10 march 1533 Died: 13 september 1592
Quotes 41 till 60 of 136.
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I want death to find me planting my cabbage
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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It happens as one sees in cages: the birds who are outside despair of ever getting in, and those within are equally desirous of getting out
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It is a common seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments.
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.
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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.
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It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
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It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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It should be noted that children's games are not merely games. One should regard them as their most serious activities.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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