Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
Michel de Montaigne
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Author Details:
Type:
Philosopher Quotes
Category:
French Philosopher Quotes
Date of Birth:
February 28, 1533
Date of Death:
September 13, 1592
Nationality:
French
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Related Authors:
Blaise Pascal
Jean-Paul Sartre
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Albert Camus
Peter Abelard
Simone Weil
Charles de Montesquieu
Jacques Derrida
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Select Michel de Montaigne Quotations:
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne
The thing I fear most is fear.
Michel de Montaigne
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
Michel de Montaigne
My trade and art is to live.
Michel de Montaigne
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
Michel de Montaigne
In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
Michel de Montaigne
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
Michel de Montaigne
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Quote Keywords:

Around,
Dream,
Eyes,
Gave,
Him,
His,
Knew,
Life,
Love,
Real,
Seem,
Soul,
Things,
World
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Around,
Dream,
Gave,
Him,
His,
Knew,
Life,
Love,
Real,
Seem,
Soul,
World
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All Michel de Montaigne Quotations:
A good marriage would be between...
A man who fears suffering is...
A straight oar looks bent in...
A wise man never loses anything...
A wise man sees as much...
Age imprints more wrinkles in the...
Ambition is not a vice of...
An unattempted lady could not vaunt...
An untempted woman cannot boast of...
Any person of honor chooses rather...
Confidence in others' honesty is no...
Confidence in the goodness of another...
Covetousness is both the beginning and...
Death, they say, acquits us of...
Even from their infancy we frame...
Every man bears the whole stamp...
Every one rushes elsewhere and into...
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
Few men have been admired of...
For truly it is to be...
Fortune, seeing that she could not...
He who establishes his argument by...
He who fears he shall suffer...
How many condemnations I have witnessed...
How many things we held yesterday...
I care not so much what...
I do myself a greater injury...
I do not speak the minds...
I have never seen a greater...
I have often seen people uncivil...
I know well what I am...
I prefer the company of peasants...
I put forward formless and unresolved...
I quote others only in order...
I set forth a humble and...
I speak the truth not so...
I study myself more than any...
I write to keep from going...
If a man should importune me...
If a man urge me to...
If ordinary people complain that I...
If there is such a thing...
If you don't know how to...
If you press me to say...
Ignorance is the softest pillow on...
In nine lifetimes, you'll never know...
In true education, anything that comes...
It is a monstrous thing that...
It is a sign of contraction...
It is an absolute and virtually...
It is good to rub and...
It is not death, it is...
It is the mind that maketh...
It should be noted that children...
Lend yourself to others, but give...
Let us not be ashamed to...
Let us permit nature to have...
Love to his soul gave eyes...
Make your educational laws strict and...
Marriage is like a cage; one...
Marriage, a market which has nothing...
My life has been full of...
My trade and art is to live.
No pleasure has any savor for...
No wind serves him who addresses...
Not being able to govern events...
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely...
Nothing is so firmly believed as...
Of all our infirmities, the most...
Once conform, once do what others...
One may be humble out of pride.
Poverty of goods is easily cured...
Rejoice in the things that are...
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's...
The beautiful souls are they that...
The ceaseless labour of your life...
The confidence in another man's virtue...
The entire lower world was created...
The finest souls are those that...
The most certain sign of wisdom...
The public weal requires that men...
The soul which has no fixed...
The strangest, most generous, and proudest...
The thing I fear most is fear.
The value of life lies not...
The way of the world is...
The world is all a carcass...
The world is but a perpetual...
The worst of my actions or...
There are some defeats more triumphant...
There is a sort of gratification...
There is little less trouble in...
There is no conversation more boring...
There is no desire more natural...
There is no passion so contagious...
There is no pleasure to me...
There is not much less vexation...
There is perhaps no more obvious...
Those who have compared our life...
Tis the sharpness of our mind...
Unless a man feels he has...
Valor is stability, not of legs...
Virtue rejects facility to be her...
We are Christians by the same...
We can be knowledgable with other...
We only labor to stuff the...
When I play with my cat...
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even...
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