Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Love

“The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.”

Grace Sight Good Man

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Grieving

“The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.”

Science Medicine Bitterness

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Inspired

“It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.”

Dying Alarms

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Philosophical

“How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.”

Thinking Inspirational

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Philosophical

“The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.”

World Problem Trouble

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Angry

“As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.”

Men World

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Philosophical

“My appetite comes to me while eating.”

Eating Appetite

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Confident

“Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.”

Thinking Life Thoughtful

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Angry

“Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?”

Serious Heat Stubborn

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Hopeful

“Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.”

Desire Our Future

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Inspired

“Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.”

Death Dying

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Funny

“I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?”

Sports Rocks Medicine

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