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Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

“I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.”

“I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older”

“The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things”

“Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end”

“He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.”

“The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself.”

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

Lutilité du vivre nest pas en lespace: elle est en lusage.

Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.

Dautant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action.

Lhonneste est stable et permanent.

Jaccuse toute violence en leducation dune ame tendre, quon dresse pour lhonneur, et la liberté.

Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme lextreme de tous les vices.

Il nest rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes.

Les naturels sanguinaires à lendroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté.

Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à lhomme quelque instinct à linhumanité

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

“He who fears will suffer, he already suffers from his fear.”

“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”

“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”