Michel de Montaigne — Philosophical Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.”

Men Truth Honesty

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.”

Art Mother Powerful

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Philosophical

“Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.”

Eye Sleep

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Philosophical

“Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?”

Bounds Exceed

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Philosophical

“We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily escape a sight so gross as ours.”

Sight Human Nature Charm

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Philosophical

“Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.”

Men Self Certain

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Philosophical

“Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.”

Men Running Time

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Philosophical

“I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.”

Heart Too Much Injustice

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Philosophical

“Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.”

Philosophy Medicine Psychology

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Philosophical

“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.”

People Believe Tolerance

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Philosophical

“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.”

Joy Host Stubbornness

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Philosophical

“Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.”

Years Life Numbers

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