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Authors communicate with the ...

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

Our truth of nowadays is not ...

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

A lady could not boast of her...

A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

If people must be talking abo...

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

Every man may speak truly, bu...

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

I do not correct my first ima...

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.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

I had rather fashion my mind ...

I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Habit is second nature. ...

Habit is second nature.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

The advantage of living is no...

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

As by some might be saide of ...

As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

The most beautiful lives, to ...

The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and without eccentricity.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Nobody is exempt from saying ...

Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

The beginnings of all things ...

The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

'As a man who knows how to ma...

'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

We must learn to suffer what ...

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

What am I to choose? "Choose ...

What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

There is nothing so noble and...

There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Arts and sciences are not cas...

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

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The shortest way to arrive at...

The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.

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It takes so much to be a king...

It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us; our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

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