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Princes give mee sufficiently...

Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

There are truths on this side...

There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Oh, a friend! How true is tha...

Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

How many worthy men have we k...

How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

If virtue cannot shine bright...

If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice, and that it is from her that she derives her reputation and honor?

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Now, of all the benefits that...

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

If to take up books were to t...

If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Glory consists of two parts: ...

Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

To make judgements about grea...

To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

For among other things he had...

For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

He was doubtless an understan...

He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Each person calls barbarism w...

Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Life in itself is neither goo...

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Those who give the first shoc...

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another's net.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Live as long as you please, y...

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

The strength of any plan depe...

The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

The shortest way to arrive at...

The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

The common notions that we fi...

The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.

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It takes so much to be a king...

It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us; our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.

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Men do not know the natural i...

Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like silkworms, and is suffocated in it. A mouse in a pitch barrel...thinks it notices from a distance some sort of glimmer of imaginary light and truth; but while running toward it, it is crossed by so many difficulties and obstacles, and diverted by so many new quests, that it strays from the road, bewildered.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

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