Quotes by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

French essayist and philosopher

Alive from: 1533-1592

Category: Philosophers

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  The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.

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  The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

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  The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

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  The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

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  The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

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  The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

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  The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

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  The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

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  The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

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  The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

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  The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

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  The thing I fear most is fear.

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  The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

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  The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

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  The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.