Michel de Montaigne Quotes

• 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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• A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

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  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Suffering, Man

• A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good

• Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acceptance

• My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.

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  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Worry

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

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  Tags in Wound

• A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acceptance

• I quote others in order to better express my own self.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writers And Writing, Better

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

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  Topics in Age, Funny

• Wickedness sucks in the greater part of its own venom, and poisons itself therewith.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Evil

• There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging 10 times in his life.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Action, Judgment, Law

• He who is not sure of his memory should not undertake the trade of lying.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lying

• Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

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  Topics in Dream, Life

  Tags in Our, Wake, Waking, Right, Went, Sleep, Sleeping, Those, Compared

Michel de Montaigne (133)

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

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