Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.”

School Debate Notion

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art.”

Art Loyal Conjecture

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Spiritual

“Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.”

Men Opinion

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Melancholic

“I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.”

Self Age

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Love

“I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.”

Love Simple Fashion

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Philosophical

“There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.”

Men Law Action

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Wise

“The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.”

Men Long

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Anxious

“We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.”

Energy Balance

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Philosophical

“To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.”

Death Oneself

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Spiritual

“The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.”

Self Knowledge

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Love

“Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.”

Creatures Companionship

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Wise

“The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.”

Educational Study

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