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We must reserve a back shop a...

We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

I want to be seen here in my ...

I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am myself the matter of my book.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

The whole idea we have for th...

The whole idea we have for their chastity is ridiculous. They would have to become numb and invisible to please us. I don't know whether the exploits of Alexander and Caesar really surpass the resolution of a beautiful young woman, bred up in the light and commerce of our society, who still keeps herself whole. There is no doing so hard as not doing.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

In my opinion it is the happy...

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Knowledge is an excellent dru...

Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.

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We ought to love temperance f...

We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.

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Other passions have objects t...

Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

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And therefore, Reader, I myse...

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.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

There is nothing in which a h...

There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

But as Nature is the best gui...

But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch his pupil and listen to him, not continually bawl words into his ears as if pouring water into a funnel. Good teaching will come from a mind well made rather than well filled.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

There is no virtue which does...

There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in well-doing, that gives us an inward satisfaction, and a certain generous boldness that accompanies a good conscience.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

A man never speaks of himself...

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Women when they marry buy a c...

Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Our religion is made to eradi...

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

No spiritual mind remains wit...

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

A tutor should not be continu...

A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after having put the lad, like a young horse, on a trot, before him, to observe his paces, and see what he is able to perform, should, according to the extent of his capacity, induce him to taste, to distinguish, and to find out things for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it for him to open; and by abating or increasing his own pace, accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil.

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[I]n my country, when they wo...

[I]n my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when I complain of the defect of mine, they do not believe me, and reprove me, as though I accused myself for a fool: not discerning the difference betwixt memory and understanding, which is to make matters still worse for me. But they do me wrong; for experience, rather, daily shows us, on the contrary, that a strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

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"Ultimately the bond of all c...

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.

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I may indeed very well happen...

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

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Can anything be imagined so r...

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, 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?

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....