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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

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.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

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

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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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

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.

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

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

No man is a hero to his own valet.

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

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.

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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

A speech belongs half to the ...

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

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

I have seen people rude by be...

I have seen people rude by being over-polite.

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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.

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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

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

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

There is no desire more natur...

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

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The receipts of cookery are s...

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

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