Michel de Montaigne Quotes

• Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

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• For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

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• Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

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• Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.

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• Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

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• Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

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• Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

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• Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

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• A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

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

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• A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

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• I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down.

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• Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

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Michel de Montaigne (133)

Birth:	28th February, 1533
Death:	13th September, 1592
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Philosopher, Writer

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