Michel de Montaigne — Philosophical Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!”

Men Heart God

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.”

Men Differences Education

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Philosophical

“We are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stones.”

Weight Stones

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Philosophical

“Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.”

Men Able

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Philosophical

“Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.”

Command

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Philosophical

“Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not; others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.”

Believe World Numbers

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Philosophical

“And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.”

Shoulders New Words

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Philosophical

“To philosophize is to doubt.”

Doubt

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Philosophical

“We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?”

Evil Death Grief

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Philosophical

“There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.”

Book Interpretation Scarcity

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Philosophical

“I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.”

Men Mother Nursing

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Philosophical

“I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.”

May History Hours

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