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Persons of mean understandings...

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.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Friendship is a creature forme...

Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep,...

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

I may indeed very well happen ...

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

No one but yourself knows whet...

No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Eloquence is an engine invente...

Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Disappointment and feebleness ...

Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

You have your face bare; I am ...

You have your face bare; I am all face.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Women when they marry buy a ca...

Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed...

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, 'That the crowd of physicians had killed him.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Necessity is a violent school-...

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Obstinacy and contention are c...

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Obstinacy and heat in argument...

Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Even opinion is of force enoug...

Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

The thing in the world I am mo...

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

The bees pillage the flowers h...

The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Amongst so many borrowed thing...

Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Every period of life has its p...

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Man is quite insane. He wouldn...

Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Every one is well or ill at ea...

Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content; and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

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