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.'
A man must not always tell all, for that were folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.Michel de Montaigne
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. 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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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.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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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
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.Michel de Montaigne
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne
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If you have known how to compose your life, you have accomplished a great deal more than the man who knows how to compose a book. Have you been able to make your stride? You have done more than man who has taken cities and empires. Michel de Montaigne
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. Michel de Montaigne
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There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger. Michel de Montaigne
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The earth is a beehive; we all enter by the same door but live in different cells.Michel de Montaigne
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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.Michel de Montaigne
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The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.Michel de Montaigne
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Virtue requires a rough and stormy passage; she will have either outward difficulties to wrestle with, or internal difficulties. Michel de Montaigne
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The greater part of the world's troubles is due to questions of grammar.Michel de Montaigne
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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
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It is a dangerous and serious presumption, and argues an absurd temerity, to condemn what we do not understand.Michel de Montaigne
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.Michel de Montaigne
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I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own. I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing.Michel de Montaigne
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I quote others only in order to better express myself.Michel de Montaigne
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Excess is the pest of pleasure and elf-restraint is not its courage, it is its spice.Michel de Montaigne
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He who established his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.Michel de Montaigne
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The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.Michel de Montaigne
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