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

Spiritual

“Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.”

Littles Nature Experience

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Love

“Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of our acquaintance and familiarity; and, consequently, that which first opens the door for us to better ourselves by the example of others, if there be anything in the society worth notice”

Doors Grace Sight

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Philosophical

“It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.”

Mind Weariness

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Love

“You have your face bare; I am all face.”

Faces Your Face

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Angry

“There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger”

Passion Anger Management

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Wise

“I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.”

Virtue Vices

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Angry

“Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.”

Glory Repose

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Philosophical

“Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.”

Opinion Glory Riches

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Philosophical

“The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.”

Secret Advice Burden

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Courageous

“Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.”

Pain Suicide Complaining

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Philosophical

“Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?”

Cutting Doctors Physicians

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Philosophical

“Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]”

Want Educational Often Is

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