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In true friendship, in which I...

In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Speech belongs half to the spe...

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Authors communicate with the p...

Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

There is no doubt that Greek a...

There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Our truth of nowadays is not w...

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call 'money' not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Almost all the opinions we hav...

Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

If people must be talking abou...

If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Of the opinions of philosophy ...

Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most our own; my opinions, in conformity with my conduct, are low and humble.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

To philosophize is to learn to...

To philosophize is to learn to die.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

We must learn to endure what w...

We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

As for me, then, I love life a...

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

My trade and my art is living....

My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

If I can, I shall keep my deat...

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

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And if nobody reads me, shall ...

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

I go out of my way, but rather...

I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader
who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.

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I, who am king of the matter I...

I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.

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I do not correct my first imag...

I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.

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The share we have in the knowl...

The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.

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Now there cannot be first prin...

Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.

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This idea is more surely under...

This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

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