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“It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. We seek other conditions because we do not understand the use of our own, and go outside of ourselves because we do not know what it is like inside. Yet there is no use our mounting on stilts, for on stilts we must still walk on our own legs. And on the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our own rump.”
Quote by -Michel 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”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: "Shut up," he said, "so that they do not realize that you are here with me.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Men have seemed miraculous to the world, in whom their wives and valets have never seen anything even worth noticing. Few men have been admired by their own households.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“The most beautiful lives, to my mind,are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle, and without eccentricity.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“If any one should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I feel it could no otherwise be expressed than by making answer, ‘Because it was he; because it was I.’ There is, beyond what I am able to say, I know not what inexplicable and inevitable power that brought on this union.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“I know no marriages which fail and come to grief more quickly than those which are set on foot by beauty and amorous desire.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“To compensate a little for the treachery and weakness of my memory, so extreme that it has happened to me more than once to pick up again...books which I have read carefully a few years before. I have adopted the habit for some time now of adding at the end of each book the time I finished reading it and the judgment I have derived of it as a whole, so that this may represent to me at least the sense and general idea I had conceived of the author in reading it.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice, and that it is from her that she derives her reputation and honor?”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“I have not seen anywhere in the world a more obvious malformed person and miracle than myself. Through use and time we become conditioned to anything strange; but the more I become familiar with and know myself, the more my deformity amazes me and the less I understand myself.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“I seek in the reading of my books only to please myself by an irreproachable diversion; or if I study it is for no other science than that which treats of the knowledge of myself, and instructs me how to die and live well.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little. Make use of time while it is present with you. It depends upon your will, and not upon the number of days, to have a sufficient length of life.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“We are entirely made up of bits and pieces, woven together so diversely and so shapelessly that each one of them pulls its own way at every moment.”
Quote by -Michel 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 imperfections that are also in him, and, in the end, against the nullity of man’s estate.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Truth for us nowadays is not what is, but what others can be brought to accept: just as we call money not only legal tender but any counterfeit coins in circulation.”
Quote by -Michel 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.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Glory and curiosity are the scourges of the soul; the last prompts us to thrust our noses into everything, the other forbids us to leave anything doubtful and undecided.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out...”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.es”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Without doubt, it is a delightful harmony when doing and saying go together.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“We are never ‘at home’: we are always outside ourselves. Fear, desire, hope, impel us towards the future; they rob us of feelings and concern for what now is, in order to spend time over what will be – even when we ourselves shall be no more. [C] ‘Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius’ [Wretched is a mind anxious about the future].”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Handling and use by able minds give value to a language, not so much by innovating as by filling it out with more vigorous and varied services, by stretching and bending it.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“A man of genius belongs to no period and no country. He speaks the language of nature, which is always everywhere the same.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“As with our colleges, so with a hundred 'modern improvements'; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“If ever I was sure that someone was coming to help me, I should run like hell.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“If ever I was sure that someone was coming to help me, I should run like hell.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau