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I leaf through books, I do not...

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

My errors are by now natural a...

My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Marriage has, for its share, u...

Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

We imagine much more appropria...

We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his demeanorand his ability. It seems to us that they do not stoop from their lofty thrones even to live.

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It is probable that the princi...

It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

True freedom is to have power ...

True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Let [children] be able to do a...

Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

There are few things on which ...

There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

If my intentions were not to b...

If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.

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Most of our occupations are lo...

Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

I say that male and female are...

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

What a wonderful thing it is t...

What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Aesop, that great man, saw his...

Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. 'What!' he said, 'Must we void ourselves as we run?' Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

I have a vocabulary all my own...

I have a vocabulary all my own. I 'pass the time' when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

I see this evident, that we wi...

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Man will rise, if God by excep...

Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.

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Memory is a wonderfully useful...

Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the more I distrust my memory, the more confused it becomes. It serves me better by chance encounter; I have to solicit it nonchalantly. For if I press it, it is stunned; and once it has begun to totter, the more I probe it, the more it gets mixed up and embarrassed. It serves me at its own time, not at mine.

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I am much afraid that we shall...

I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

What fear has once made me wil...

What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

If others surpass you in knowl...

If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

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