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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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The soul in which philosophy dwells should by its health make even the body healthy. It should make its tranquillity and gladness shine out from within; should form in its own mold the outward demeanor, and consequently arm it with a graceful pride, an active and joyous bearing, and a contented and good-natured countenance. The surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness.
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It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.
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nature
sustainable-development
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Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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understanding
mind
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Let the tutor make his charge pass everything through a sieve and lodge nothing in his head on mere authority and trust: let not Aristotle's principles be principles to him any more than those of the Stoics or Epicureans. Let this variety of ideas be set before him; he will choose if he can; if not, he will remain in doubt. Only the fools are certain and assured. For if he embraces Xenophon's and Plato's opinions by his own reasoning, they ..
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Women are not entirely wrong when they reject the moral rules proclaimed in society, since it is we men alone who have made them.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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We should tend our freedom wisely.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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In our time the most warlike nations are the most rude and ignorant.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?
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mankind
world
perspective
hubris
mastery
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Michel de Montaigne |
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No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette a l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensees, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie. (There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.)
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thoughts
goodness
privacy
laws
guilt
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Between ourselves, there are two things that I have always observed to be in singular accord: supercelestial thoughts and subterranean conduct.
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of-experience
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Michel de Montaigne |
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The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.
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habit
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Were our pupil's disposition so bizarre that he would rather hear a tall story than the account of a great voyage or a wise discussion; that at the sound of a drum calling the youthful ardour of his comrades to arms he would turn aside for the drum of a troop of jugglers; that he would actually find it no more delightful and pleasant to return victorious covered in the dust of battle than after winning a prize for tennis or dancing; then I ..
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That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: "Shut up," he said, "so that they do not realize that you are here with me."
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Michel de Montaigne |
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admy z hyjnt swzn, ngzyr bh tb hy swzn my jhd
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I would rather be an authority on myself than on Cicero.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime: or if I do study, I seek only that branch of learning which deals with knowing myself and which teaches me how to live and die well...
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study
pleasure
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What hits you affects you and wakes you up more then what pleases you.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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As for extraordinary things, all the provision in the world would not suffice.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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He who does not give himself leisure to be thirsty cannot take pleasure in drinking.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Man is forming thousands of ridiculous relations between himself and God.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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