Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate and take deep root in. No propositions astonish me, no belief offends me, whatever contrast it offers to my own. There is no fancy so frivolous and so extravagant that it does not seem to me quite suitable to the production of the human mind.”

Mind Roots Ease

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.”

Littles Reading Inattention

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Philosophical

“One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.”

Want Stupid

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Philosophical

“Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.”

Way Virtue

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Philosophical

“Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling.”

Children Sweet Compassion

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Philosophical

“It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits.”

Believe Limits Stranger

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Angry

“Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.”

Enough Opinion

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Angry

“Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.”

Men Kind

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Philosophical

“Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.”

Use Found Worship

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Philosophical

“If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.”

Men Different Portraiture

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Philosophical

“To know much is often the cause of doubting more.”

Knows Doubt

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Philosophical

“There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself”

Useless Uselessness

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