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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Michel de Montaigne quotes

French Philosopher, Writer February 28, 1533 – September 13, 1592

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Michel de Montaigne quote: "Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should..."
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie. Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne quote: "A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband."
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne quote: "Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education,..."
Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome. Michel de Montaigne
This, reader, is an honest book...I want to appear in my simple, natural and everyday dress, without strain or artifice; for it is myself that I portray Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne quote: "Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best..."
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity. Michel de Montaigne
If anyone gets intoxicated with his knowledge when he looks beneath him, let him turn his eyes upward toward past ages, and he will lower his horns, finding there so many thousands of minds that trample him underfoot. If he gets into some flattering presumption about his valor, let him remember the lives of the two Scipios, so many armies, so many nations, all of whom leave him so far behind them. No particular quality will make a man proud who balances it against the many weaknesses and... Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne quote: "Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her..."
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne quote: "Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better..."
Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do. Michel de Montaigne
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. Michel de Montaigne
The pettiest and slightest nuisances are the most acute; and as small letters hurt and tire the eyes most, so do trifling matters sting us most. Michel de Montaigne
A noble heart should not belie its thoughts; it wants to reveal itself even to its inmost depths. There everything is good, at least everything is human. Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne quote: "The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of..."
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence. Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne quote: "The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my..."
The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation. Michel de Montaigne
I once took pleasure some place in seeing men, through piety, take a vow of ignorance, as of chastity, poverty, penitence. It is also castrating our disorderly appetites, to blunt that cupidity that pricks us on to the study of books, and to deprive the soul of that voluptuous complacency which tickles us with the notion of being learned. Michel de Montaigne
If the pupil proves to be of so perverse a disposition that he would rather listen to some idle tale than to the account of a glorious voyage or to a wise conversation, when he hears one; if he turns away from the drum-beat that awakens young ardour in his comrades, to listen to another tattoo that summons him to a display of juggling; if he does not fervently feel it to be pleasanter and sweeter to return from a wrestling-match, dusty but victorious, with the prize in his hand, than from a... Michel de Montaigne

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