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 121 till 136 of 136.
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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.
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We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?
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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
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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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