Michel de Montaigne — Philosophical Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.”

Life Lying Success

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.”

Giving Spoil Good Humor

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Philosophical

“Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.”

Lying Doe

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Philosophical

“The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.”

Inspirational Life

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Philosophical

“It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."”

Reality Errors Capacity

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Philosophical

“In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.”

Men Opinion

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Philosophical

“Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.”

Wisdom Chance

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Philosophical

“I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.”

Men Knowledge Libertarian

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Philosophical

“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.”

Men Long Use

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Philosophical

“I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.”

Men Average Identity

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Philosophical

“If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.”

Book Life Taken

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Philosophical

“There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.”

Evil Death Constraints

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