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Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.”
Source: Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,
“A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.”
Source: Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters
Source: Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc
Source: Essays
“The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate.”
“As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
Source: Complete Essays
“We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.”
“As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.”
“Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.”
“Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.”
Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c
“For a desperate disease a desperate cure.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c
Source: The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters
“It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.”
Source: Essays
“There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.”
Source: Complete Essays
“A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.”
Source: The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times : His Childhood, Youth, and Prime : His Adventures in Love and Marriage, at Court, and in Office, War, Revolution, and Plague : His Travels at Home and Abroad : His Habits, Tastes, Whims, and Opinions
“One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.”
“Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.”
“No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.”
Source: Complete Essays
“There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.”
Source: Essays
“Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.”
Source: Autobiography: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times ...
Source: Essays of Montaigne
“The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.”
Source: Essays of Montaigne
“No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.”
“The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.”
Source: Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays