Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Wise

“Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.”

Mean Soul Quality

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Wise

“Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth of the new proposition has been demonstrated beyond question, they say, Yes, it may be true, but it is not important. Finally, when sufficient time has elapsed to fully evidence its importance, they say, Yes, surely it is important, but it is no longer new.”

World Important Discovery

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Wise

“There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.”

Littles Parent

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Spiritual

“Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.”

Sin Fantasy

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Funny

“Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.”

Cat Bags Matrimony

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Philosophical

“Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.”

Loud Strokes

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Philosophical

“Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.”

War Kings

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Philosophical

“I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.”

May Said Contradiction

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Philosophical

“Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.”

Philosophy Secret Attention

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Philosophical

“I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.”

Pain Pleasure Avoided

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Philosophical

“We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.”

War Ambition Ambitious

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Philosophical

“Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.”

Use Weapons Dangerous

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