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It is indeed the boundary of ...

It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

I never met a man who thought...

I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Fortune does us neither good ...

Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.

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Whatever is preached to us, a...

Whatever is preached to us, and whatever we learn, we should still remember that it is man that gives, and man that receives; it is a mortal hand that presents it to us, it is a mortal hand that accepts it.

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It is a thorny undertaking, a...

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Friendship that possesses the...

Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

I love a friendship that flat...

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Ambition sufficiently plagues...

Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

It is fear that I stand most ...

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

If love and ambition should b...

If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

I have seen people rude by be...

I have seen people rude by being over-polite.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

The desire for riches is more...

The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

A speech belongs half to the ...

A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Virtue can have naught to do ...

Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Business in a certain sort of...

Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

I determine nothing; I do not...

I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Writing does not cause misery...

Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

If not for that of conscience...

If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant; that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Beauty is the true prerogativ...

Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.

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Who is only good that others ...

Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.

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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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....