Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it; and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.”

Criticism Revenge Critics

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Confident

“I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.”

Men Remember Attention

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Philosophical

“It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.”

Inspirational Law Motivational

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Philosophical

“To smell, though well, is to stink.”

Smell Perfume

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Ambitious

“Ambition is not a vice of little people.”

People Inspirational

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Love

“I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.”

Heart Eye Cities

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Philosophical

“O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.”

Fool Arrogance Farce

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Philosophical

“Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.”

Order Brain Stomach

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Philosophical

“An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it. It is the custom of his country, and there is profit in it. We must live by the world, and such as we find it, so make use of it.”

Country Exercise Honesty

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Philosophical

“Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.”

Temperance Sensuality Seasoning

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Funny

“Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.”

Order Marriage Wedding

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Courageous

“I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.”

Law Suicide Crooks

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