“Virtue rejects facility to be her companion…. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.”
Michel De Montaigne
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“Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?”
Michel De Montaigne
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“Truly, it is not want, but rather abundance, that breeds avarice.”
Michel De Montaigne
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“It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well.”
Michel De Montaigne
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“The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and without eccentricity.”
Michel De Montaigne
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“It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: “Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think,” and the like.”
Michel De Montaigne
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“If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much; they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.”
Michel De Montaigne
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“While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.”
Michel De Montaigne
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“I would rather produce my passions than brood over them at my expense; they grow languid when they have vent and expression. It is better that their point should operate outwardly than be turned against us.”
Michel De Montaigne
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“Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.”
Michel De Montaigne
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“What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity of their climate; I rather attribute it to the tranquility and serenity of their souls, which are free from all passion, thought, or any absorbing and unpleasant labors. Those people spend their lives in an admirable simplicity and ignorance, without letters, without law, without king, without any manner of religion.”
Michel De Montaigne
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“I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.”
Michel De Montaigne
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“In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.”
Michel De Montaigne
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“I, who travel most often for my pleasure, do not direct myself so badly. If it looks ugly on the right, I take the left; if I find myself unfit to ride my horse, I stop…. Have I left something unseen behind me? I go back; it is still on my road. I trace no fixed line, either straight or crooked.”
Michel De Montaigne
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“I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife.”
Michel De Montaigne
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“After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and imitable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.”
Michel De Montaigne
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“If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.”
Michel De Montaigne
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Vanity
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“There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.”
Michel De Montaigne
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Vanity
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“Vainglory and curiosity are the two scourges of our soul. The latter leads us to thrust our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.”
Michel De Montaigne
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“Of all illusions in the world, the most universally received is the concern for reputation and glory, which we espouse even to the point of giving up riches, rest, life, and health, which are effectual and substantial goods, to follow that vain phantom and mere sound that has neither body nor substance.”
Michel De Montaigne
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Vanity
