Michel de Montaigne — Philosophical Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking”

Giving Drinking Leisure

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.”

Men Quality Essence

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Philosophical

“My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.”

Atheism Knees

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Philosophical

“In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.”

Want Abundance

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Philosophical

“Habit is second nature.”

Nature Habit

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Philosophical

“He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.”

Reading Force

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Philosophical

“Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.”

Philosophy Ignorance

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Philosophical

“One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.”

Writing Character Spring

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Philosophical

“Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?”

Office Bees Insects

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Philosophical

“I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.”

Writing Mad Never Quit

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Philosophical

“He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.”

Firsts Sea Rivers

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Philosophical

“I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.”

Self Moving Soul

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