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Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c

Book by Michel de Montaigne · 8 quotes · Men, May, Wells

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“Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.”

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“For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.”

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“We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. There is, indeed, a certain low and moderate sort of poetry, that a man may well enough judge by certain rules of art; but the true, supreme, and divine poesy is equally above all rules and reason. And whoever discerns the beauty of it with the most assured and most steady sight sees no more than the quick reflection of a flash of lightning.”

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“The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own; and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.”

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

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“After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.”

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“The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.”

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