Michel de Montaigne Quotes

979 quotes · Philosopher, Writer

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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Love

“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”

Love Sports Nurse

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Thoughtful

“I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.”

Life Philosophy Humble

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Angry

“Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.”

May Stills

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Wise

“'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.”

Giving Mind

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Philosophical

“There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.”

Writing Vanity Obvious

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Angry

“How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!”

Inspirational Criminals

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Funny

“I have seen people rude by being over-polite.”

People Rude

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Philosophical

“Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes to us that is not altered and falsified by our Senses. When the compass, the square, and the rule are untrue, all the calculations drawn from them, all the buildings erected by their measure, are of necessity also defective and out of plumb. The uncertainty of our senses renders uncertain everything that they produce.”

Reality Philosophy Squares

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Courageous

“Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.”

Passion Ambition Luxury

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Wise

“It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.”

Children Principles Training

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Philosophical

“It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.”

Lying Memories Honesty

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Philosophical

“Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.”

Children Art Educational

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