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On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
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throne
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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solitude
individuality
self-determination
independence
self-awareness
inspirational
self-assurance
self-sufficiency
self-trust
ataraxy
self-containment
self-reliance
self-respect
self-esteem
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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.
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confidence
inspirational
pride
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Michel de Montaigne |
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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irony
humor
truth
quoting
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Michel de Montaigne |
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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suffering
paradox
suffer
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Michel de Montaigne |
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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reflection
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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philosophy
wisdom
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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.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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There is nothing more notable in than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
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philosophy
lifelong-learning
socrates
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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.
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understanding
greed
insight
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
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firm
intensity
ignorance
knowledge
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Michel de Montaigne |
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How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?
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fables
superstition
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Michel de Montaigne |
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To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary's force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.
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reason
ardor
changed-mind
dispute
open-mind
argument
force
weakness
victory
pride
pleasure
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Michel de Montaigne |
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dce67b8
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Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.
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world
humor
misunderstandings
problems
troubles
grammar
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Michel de Montaigne |
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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mind
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Michel de Montaigne |
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
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xenophobia
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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marriage
relationships
freedom
captivity
married-life
single
matrimony
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Michel de Montaigne |
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5c66ff7
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Every movement reveals us.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Why do people respect the package rather than the man?
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truth
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Michel de Montaigne |
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4b718b0
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No wind favors he who has no destined port.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
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Michel de Montaigne |
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No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
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words
silly
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Michel de Montaigne |
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I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;
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wisdom
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Michel de Montaigne |
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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
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wisdom
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Michel de Montaigne |
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
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strength
valor
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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knowledge
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Michel de Montaigne |
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Let the tutor not merely require a verbal account of what the boy has been taught but the meaning and the substance of it: let him judge how the child has profited from it not from the evidence of his memory but from that of his life. Let him take what the boy has just learned and make him show him dozens of different aspects of it and then apply it to just as many different subjects, in order to find out whether he has really grasped it an..
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.
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scourge
pride
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Let every foot have its own shoe.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: 'Because it was he; because it was me.
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michel-de-montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne |
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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time
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.
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understanding
knowledge
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Democritus and Heraclitus were two philosophers, of whom the first, finding the condition of man vain and ridiculous, never went out in public but with a mocking and laughing face; whereas Heraclitus, having pity and compassion on this same condition of ours, wore a face perpetually sad, and eyes filled with tears. I prefer the first humor; not because it is pleasanter to laugh than to weep, but because it is more disdainful, and condemns u..
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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wisdom
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Michel de Montaigne |
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And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell:
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.
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Michel de Montaigne |