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“I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Je ne dis les autres, sinon pour d'autant plus me dire.
Book I, Ch. 26
Essais (1595), Book I
Variant: I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

“There were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book II, Ch. 37
Essais (1595), Book II
Variant: There were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity.

World , Universe

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

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book I, Ch. 38. Of Solitude
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Peaceful

“Non pudeat dicere, quod non pudet sentire: "Let no man be ashamed to speak what he is not ashamed to think."”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book III, Ch. 4. http://books.google.com/books?id=pXItAAAAMAAJ&q="Non+pudeat+dicere+quod+non+pudet+scntire+Let+no+man+be+ashamed+to+speak+what+he+is+not+ashamed+to+think"&pg=PA57#v=onepage
Essais (1595), Book III

Thinking

“It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.”

Michel De Montaigne

Book I, Ch. 26
Attributed

“What if he has borrowed the matter and spoiled the form, as it oft falls out?”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book III, Ch. 8. Of the Art of Conversation
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book III, Ch. 9. Of Vanity
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Stupidity

“For my own part, I cannot without grief see so much as an innocent beast pursued and killed that has no defence, and from which we have received no offence at all.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book II, Ch. 11
Essais (1595), Book II

Parting

“We were halves throughout, and to that degree that methinks by outliving him I defraud him of his part.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book I, Ch. 27. Of Friendship
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Parting

“In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page-boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk— they are all part of the curriculum.”

Michel De Montaigne

The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne, Chapter III, pg. 24 (Translated by Marvin Lowenthal
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Books , Education , Boy , Parting

“The world is but a perpetual see-saw.”

Michel De Montaigne

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World

“Tis a good word and a profitable desire, but withal absurd; for to make the handle bigger than the hand, the cubic longer than the arm, and to hope to stride further than our legs can reach, is both impossible and monstrous; or that man should rise above himself and humanity; for he cannot see but with his eyes, nor seize but with his hold. He shall be exalted, if God will lend him an extraordinary hand; he shall exalt himself, by abandoning and renouncing his own proper means, and by suffering himself to be raised and elevated by means purely celestial. It belongs to our Christian faith, and not to the stoical virtue, to pretend to that divine and miraculous metamorphosis.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book III, Ch. 12 : Of Physiognomy
Essais (1595), Book III

God , Faith , Hope , Suffering

“The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book III, Ch. 13. Of Experience
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.”

Michel De Montaigne

Book I, Ch. 20
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Life , Death , Housing

“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.”

Michel De Montaigne

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Love , Behavior , Sport , Learning

“I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

J'ai seulement fait ici un amas de fleurs étrangères, n'y ayant fourni du mien que le filet à les lier.
Book III, Ch. 12 : Of Physiognomy
Essais (1595), Book III

Men , Flowers

“Apollo said that every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book II, Ch. 12. Apology for Raimond Sebond
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Chance

“Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, research is the means of all learning, and ignorance is the end.”

Michel De Montaigne

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Learning

“Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book I, Ch. 14
Essais (1595), Book I