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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

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

Saying is one thing and doing...

Saying is one thing and doing is another

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

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

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

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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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

Writing does not cause misery...

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

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

A young man ought to cross hi...

A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

No man is a hero to his own v...

No man is a hero to his own valet.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

For me, who only desire to be...

For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Man (in good earnest) is a ma...

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

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No man divulges his revenue, ...

No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Ceremony forbids us to expres...

Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.

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To how many blockheads of my ...

To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Lying is a disgraceful vice, ...

Lying is a disgraceful vice, and one that Plutarch paints in most disgraceful colors, when he says that it is "affording testimony that one first despises God, and then fears men." It is not possible more happily to describe its horrible, disgusting, and abandoned nature; for can we imagine anything more vile than to be cowards with regard to men, and brave with regard to God.

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The religion of my doctor or ...

The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Persons of mean understanding...

Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.

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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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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...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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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....