Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.”

Men World Rules Of Life

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Confident

“True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.”

School Freedom Self Confidence

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Wise

“The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.”

Memories Please

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Philosophical

“The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.”

Evil Opinion

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Wise

“From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.”

Self Opinion Sin

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Funny

“I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.”

Poetry Subjects Blithe

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Regretful

“Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest”

Use Grammar

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Courageous

“It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.”

Littles Sacrifice

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Thoughtful

“The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.”

Honor Respect Royalty

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Philosophical

“For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.”

Use Wise Desire

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Hopeful

“I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.”

Want Garden Cabbage

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Philosophical

“A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!”

Men School Study

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