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

Love

“If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.”

Men Giving Love

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.”

Art Dream Nature

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Philosophical

“Habit is second nature.”

Nature Habit

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Philosophical

“He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.”

Reading Force

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Grateful

“There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in well-doing, that gives us an inward satisfaction, and a certain generous boldness that accompanies a good conscience.”

Giving Doe Congratulations

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Philosophical

“How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the horror of uninhabitable deserts; who have flung themselves into humiliation, degradation, and the contempt of the world, and have enjoyed these and even sought them out.”

Home Desert Degradation

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Philosophical

“If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a slipper? By the same token, why do we not believe that if innumerable letters of the Greek alphabet were poured all over the market-place they would eventually happen to form the text of the Iliad?”

Believe Science House

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Philosophical

“Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.”

Believe Mean Christian

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Philosophical

“Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking”

Giving Drinking Leisure

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Angry

“Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".”

Done Wine Champagne

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Angry

“I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.”

Boys Punishment Whipping

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Philosophical

“I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.”

Men Quality Essence

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