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 61 till 80 of 136.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.
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My art and profession is to live.
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
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My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.
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My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.
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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
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No wind favors him who has no destined port.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
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Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.
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Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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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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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.
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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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Philosophy is doubt.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.
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