Michel De Montaigne

Daily quotes from Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - father of the essay.

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"I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own."

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"A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself."

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"For seeing philosophy has not been able to find out any way to tranquillity that is good in common, let every one seek it in particular."

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"In our time the most warlike nations are the most rude and ignorant."

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"I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it."

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"Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself."

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"I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics."

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"Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice."

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"Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved."

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"Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement."

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"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."

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"I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind."

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"No one is exempt from speaking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly."

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"We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there."

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"He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear."

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"A man of genius belongs to no period and no country. He speaks the language of nature, which is always everywhere the same."

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"No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him."

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"The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live to the point."

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"Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."

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"Better to be tentative than to be recklessly sure- to be an apprentice at sixty, than to present oneself as a doctor at ten."