Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.”

Democracy Sick Medicine

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Wise

“We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be in our power, and indeed there is nothing really in our own power except the will: on this are necessarily based and founded all the principles that regulate the duty of man.”

Men Mean Principles

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Vulnerable

“I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.”

Men Use

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Adventurous

“One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.”

Should Death

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Courageous

“The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.”

Way Would Be Glory

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Melancholic

“There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.”

Self Sadness Nursing

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Philosophical

“I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.”

Fire Integrity

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Philosophical

“No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.”

Doctors Pleasure

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Philosophical

“People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.”

People Business Society

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Philosophical

“If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.”

People Book Death

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Spiritual

“I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.”

Eye Understanding Wind

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Philosophical

“Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them; 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.”

Appreciation Taste Benefits

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