Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Michel De Montaigne quotes, Michel De Montaigne sayings, and Michel De Montaigne proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
The most universal quality is diversity.Michel de Montaigne
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Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.Michel de Montaigne
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.Michel de Montaigne
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The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate. Michel de Montaigne
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The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.Michel de Montaigne
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition. Michel de Montaigne
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.Michel de Montaigne
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Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.Michel de Montaigne
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We must reserve a little back-shop, all our own, entirely free, wherein to establish our true liberty and principal retreat and solitude.Michel de Montaigne
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I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.Michel de Montaigne
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.Michel de Montaigne
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An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it.Michel de Montaigne
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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.Michel de Montaigne
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.Michel de Montaigne
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A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid.Michel de Montaigne
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.Michel de Montaigne
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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong. Michel de Montaigne
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould.Michel de Montaigne
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The most terrible and violent of our own afflictions is to despise our own beings.Michel de Montaigne
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A good marriage needs a blind wife and a deaf husband. Michel de Montaigne
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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.Michel de Montaigne
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.Michel de Montaigne
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No wind favors him who has no destined port.Michel de Montaigne
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.Michel de Montaigne
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I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.Michel de Montaigne
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.Michel de Montaigne
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He who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.Michel de Montaigne
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!Michel de Montaigne
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.Michel de Montaigne
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We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.Michel de Montaigne