Michel de Montaigne — Philosophical Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.”

Use Found Worship

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.”

Men Different Portraiture

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Philosophical

“How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.”

Thinking Inspirational

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Philosophical

“It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.”

Mind Weariness

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Philosophical

“There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself”

Useless Uselessness

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Philosophical

“The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.”

World Problem

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Philosophical

“My appetite comes to me while eating.”

Eating Appetite

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Philosophical

“Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.”

Opinion Glory Riches

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Philosophical

“The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.”

Secret Advice Burden

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Philosophical

“Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?”

Cutting Doctors Physicians

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Philosophical

“Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]”

Want Educational Often Is

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Philosophical

“I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.”

Death Work Garden

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