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Were I to live my life over a...

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

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He that first likened glory t...

He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.

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My opinion is that we must le...

My opinion is that we must lend ourselves to others and give ourselves only to ourselves. If my will happened to be prone to mortgage and attach itself, I would not last: I am too tender, both by nature and by practice.

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Men do not know the natural i...

Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like silkworms, and is suffocated in it. A mouse in a pitch barrel...thinks it notices from a distance some sort of glimmer of imaginary light and truth; but while running toward it, it is crossed by so many difficulties and obstacles, and diverted by so many new quests, that it strays from the road, bewildered.

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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.

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The common notions that we fi...

The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.

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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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The strength of any plan depe...

The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Laws are maintained in credit...

Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of their authority; they have none other.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

Children's plays are not spor...

Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

God defend me from being an h...

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

Michel Eyquem De Montaig 1193 quotes

I, who am king of the matter ...

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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The share we have in the know...

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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What of a truth that is bound...

What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?

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No man is so exquisitely hone...

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

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I find no quality so easy for...

I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.

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Marriage can be compared to a...

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

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It is not without good reason...

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

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One open way of speaking intr...

One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

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Of all human and ancient opin...

Of all human and ancient opinions concerning religion, that seems to me the most likely and most excusable, that acknowledged God as an incomprehensible power, the original and preserver of all things, all goodness, all perfection, receiving and taking in good part the honour and reverence that man paid him, under what method, name, or ceremonies soever.

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