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Virtue shuns ease as a compan...

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Saying is one thing and doing...

Saying is one thing and doing is another

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

The premeditation of death is...

The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

It is a stupid presumption to...

It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a common fault in those who think they have more intelligence than the crowd.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Travelling through the world ...

Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

In the examples that I here b...

In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

The vulgar and common esteem ...

The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.

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Vexations may be petty, but t...

Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

We have so much ill fortune a...

We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base

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The worthiest man to be known...

The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

The recognition of virtue is ...

The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to acknowledge it; and though he may be unwilling to take it into his inmost soul, he at least decks himself out in its trappings.

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The world always looks straig...

The world always looks straights ahead; as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself; I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward; as for me, I roll about in myself.

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The height and value of true ...

The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own; and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.

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To divert myself from a troub...

To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books; they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences; they always receive me with the same kindness.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Our zeal works wonders, whene...

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

The laws keep up their credit...

The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have no other, and it well answers their purpose. They are often made by fools; still oftener by men who, out of hatred to equality, fail in equity; but always by men, vain and irresolute authors.

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We endeavor more that men sho...

We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.

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A volunteer, you assign yours...

A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.

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It was truly very good reason...

It was truly very good reason that we should be beholden to God only, and to the favour of his grace, for the truth of so noble a belief, since from his sole bounty we receive the fruit of immortality, which consists in the enjoyment of eternal beatitude.... The more we give and confess to owe and render to God, we do it with the greater Christianity.

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Women are not altogether in t...

Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.

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