Michel de Montaigne — Philosophical Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another's net.”

Giving Water Ruins

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.”

Political Judging Popular Vote

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Philosophical

“The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods.”

Opinion Diversity

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Philosophical

“Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.”

Giving Food

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Philosophical

“There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.”

Order Discipline Virtue

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Philosophical

“For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.”

Soul Choices Educational

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Philosophical

“How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!”

Men Survival

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Philosophical

“It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.”

Writing Easier

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Philosophical

“T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past.”

Past Might States

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Philosophical

“What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?”

Lying Kind Mountain

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Philosophical

“Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.”

Book Fool

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Philosophical

“The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate.”

Law Heaven

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