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The souls of emperors and cobb...

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Our wisdom and deliberation fo...

Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Happiness involves working tow...

Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Intoxication is calculated to ...

Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Wine is the benevolent god, wh...

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Now, since everything else is ...

Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Our skin is provided as adequa...

Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes; nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

For all parts of the body that...

For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet, hands, legs, shoulders, head, according as custom invites us. For if there is a part of us that is tender and that seems as though it should fear the cold, it should be the stomach, where digestion takes place; our fathers left it uncovered, and our ladies, soft and delicate as they are, sometimes go half bare down to the navel.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Man is the sole animal whose n...

Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Silence and modesty are very v...

Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

The finest lives in my opinion...

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

For truth itself does not have...

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

An honest man is not accountab...

An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it. It is the custom of his country, and there is profit in it. We must live by the world, and such as we find it, so make use of it.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

My library is my kingdom, and ...

My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Men throw themselves on foreig...

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

We feel a kind of bittersweet ...

We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

It is only reasonable to allow...

It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

I look upon the too good opini...

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

The worth of the mind consiste...

The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

No pleasure is fully delightfu...

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

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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....