QUOTES by Michel Montaigne
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“Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.”
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“To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.”
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“If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: 'Because it was he; because it was me.”
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“The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may live long, yet get little from life. Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will - Montaigne, Essays”
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“When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.”
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“Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.”
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“Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.”
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“Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.”
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“So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.”
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“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.”
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“Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.”
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“Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.”
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“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.”
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“Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.”
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“Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.”
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“I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.”
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“I want us to be doing things, prolonging life's duties as much as we can. I want death to find me planting my cabbages, neither worrying about it nor the unfinished gardening.”
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“It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.”
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“We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.”
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“If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.”
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“Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.”
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“There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)”
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“There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.”
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“No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.”
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“No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.”
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“I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other”
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“There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.”
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“[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.”
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“When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.”
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“He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.”
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“I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.”
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