Quotes And Images From the Works of Michel De Montaigne
Quotes And Images From the Works of Michel De Montaigne
Montaigne Michel De
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away with this compulsion!Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old ageBe not angry to no purposeBe on which side you will, you have as fair a game to playBears well a changed fortune, acting both parts equally wellBeast of company, as the ancient said, but not of the herdBeauty of stature is the only beauty of menBecause the people know so well how to obeyBecome a fool by too much wisdomBeing as impatient of commanding as of being commandedBeing dead they were then by one day h...appier than heBeing over-studious, we impair our health and spoil our humourBelief compared to the impression of a seal upon the soulBelieving Heaven concerned at our ordinary actionsBest part of a captain to know how to make use of occasionsBest test of truth is the multitude of believers in a crowdBest virtue I have has in it some tincture of viceBetter at speaking than writing--Motion and action animate wordBetter have none at all than to have them in so prodigious a numberBetter to be alone than in foolish and troublesome companyBlemishes of the great naturally appear greaterBooks go side by side with me in my whole courseBooks have many charming qualities to such as know how to chooseBooks have not so much served me for instruction as exerciseBooks I read over again, still smile upon me with fresh noveltyBooks of things that were never either studied or understoodBoth himself and his posterity declared ignoble, taxableBoth kings and philosophers go to stoolBurnt and roasted for opinions taken upon trust from othersBusiness to-morrowBut ill proves the honour and beauty of an action by its utilityBut it is not enough that our education does not spoil usBy resenting the lie we acquit ourselves of the faultBy suspecting them, have given them a title to do ill"By the gods, " said he, "if I was not angry, I would execute you"By the misery of this life, aiming at bliss in anotherCaesar: he would be thought an excellent engineer to bootCaesar's choice of death: "the shortest"Can neither keep nor enjoy anything with a good graceCannot stand the liberty of a friend's adviceCarnal appetites only supported by use and exerciseCato said: So many servants, so many enemiesCeremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawfulCertain other things that people hide only to show themChange is to be fearedChange of fashionsChange only gives form to injustice and tyrannyCherish themselves most where they are most wrongChess: this idle and childish gameChiefly knew himself to be mortal by this actChildish ignorance of many very ordinary thingsChildren are amused with toys and men with wordsCicero: on fameCivil innocence is measured according to times and placesCleave to the side that stood most in need of hercloak on one shoulder, my cap on one side, a stocking disorderedCollege: a real house of correction of imprisoned youthComing out of the same holeCommit themselves to the common fortuneCommon consolation, discourages and softens meCommon friendships will admit of divisionConclude the depth of my sense by its obscurityConcluding no beauty can be greater than what they seeCondemn all violence in the education of a tender soulCondemn the opposite affirmation equallyCondemnations have I seen more criminal than the crimesCondemning wine, because some people will be drunkConfession enervates reproach and disarms slanderConfidence in another man's virtueConscience makes us betray, accuse, and fight against ourselvesConscience, which we pretend to be derived from natureConsent, and complacency in giving a man's self up to melancholyConsoles himself upon the utility and eternity of his writingsContent: more easily found in want than in abundanceCounterfeit condolings of pretendersCourageous in death, not because his soul is immortal--SocratesCourtesy and good manners is a very necessary studyCrafty humility that springs from presumptionCrates did worse, who threw himself into the liberty of povertyCruelty is the very extreme of all vicesCulling out of several books the sentences that best please meCuriosity and of that eager passion for newsCuriosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge"Custom, " replied Plato, "is no little thing"Customs and laws make justiceDangerous man you have deprived of all means to escapeDangers do, in truth, little or nothing hasten our endDearness is a good sauce to meatDeath can, whenever we please, cut short inconveniencesDeath conduces more to birth and augmentation than to lossDeath discharges us of all our obligationsDeath has us every moment by the throatDeath is a part of youDeath is terrible to Cicero, coveted by CatoDeath of old age the most rare and very seldom seenDeceit maintains and supplies most men's employmentDecree that says, "The court understands nothing of the matter"Defence allures attempt, and defiance provokes an enemyDefend most the defects with which we are most taintedDefer my revenge to another and better timeDeformity of the first cruelty makes me abhor all imitationDelivered into our own custody the keys of lifeDenying all solicitation, both of hand and mindDepend as much upon fortune as anything else we doDesire of riches is more sharpened by their use than by the needDesire of travelDesires, that still increase as they are fulfilledDetest in others the defects which are more manifest in usDid my discourses came only from my mouth or from my heartDid not approve all sorts of means to obtain a victoryDie well--that is, patiently and tranquillyDifference betwixt memory and understandingDifficulty gives all things their estimationDignify our fopperies when we commit them to the pressDiogenes, esteeming us no better than flies or bladdersDiscover what there is of good and clean in the bottom of the poDisdainful, contemplative, serious and grave as the assDisease had arrived at its period or an effect of chance?Disgorge what we eat in the same condition it was swallowedDisguise, by their abridgments and at their own choiceDissentient and tumultuary drugsDiversity of medical arguments and opinions embraces allDiverting the opinions and conjectures of the peopleDo not much blame them for making their advantage of our follyDo not to pray that all things may go as we would have themDo not, nevertheless, always believe myselfDo thine own work, and know thyselfDoctors: more felicity and duration in their own lives?Doctrine much more intricate and fantastic than the thing itselfDost thou, then, old man, collect food for others' ears?Doubt whether those (old writings) we have be not the worstDoubtful ills plague us worstDownright and sincere obedienceDrugs being in its own nature an enemy to our healthDrunkeness a true and certain trial of every one's natureDying appears to him a natural and indifferent accidentEach amongst you has made somebody cuckoldEat your bread with the sauce of a more pleasing imaginationEducationEducation ought to be carried on with a severe sweetnessEffect and performance are not at all in our powerEither tranquil life, or happy deathEloquence prejudices the subject it would advanceEmperor Julian, surnamed the ApostateEndeavouring to be brief, I become obscureEngaged in the avenues of old age, being already past fortyEnough to do to comfort myself, without having to console othersEnslave our own contentment to the power of another?Enters lightly into a quarrel is apt to go as lightly out of itEntertain us with fables: astrologers and physiciansEpicurusEstablish this proposition by authority and huffingEvade this tormenting and unprofitable knowledgeEven the very promises of physic are incredible in themselvesEvents are a very poor testimony of our worth and partsEvery abridgment of a good book is a foolish abridgmentEvery day travels towards death; the last only arrives at itEvery government has a god at the head of itEvery man thinks himself sufficiently intelligentEvery place of retirement requires a walkEverything has many faces and several aspectsExamine, who is better learned, than who is more learnedExcel above the common rate in frivolous thingsExcuse myself from knowing anything which enslaves me to othersExecutions rather whet than dull the edge of vicesExpresses more contempt and condemnation than the otherExtend their anger and hatred beyond the dispute in questionExtremity of philosophy is hurtfulFabric goes forming and piling itself up from hand to handFame: an echo, a dream, nay, the shadow of a dreamFancy that others cannot believe otherwise than as he doesFantastic gibberish of the prophetic cantingFar more easy and pleasant to follow than to leadFathers conceal their affection from their childrenFault not to discern how far a man's worth extendsFault will be theirs for having consulted meFear and distrust invite and draw on offenceFear is more importunate and insupportable than death itselfFear of the fall more fevers me than the fall itselfFear to lose a thing, which being lost, cannot be lamented?Fear was not that I should do ill, but that I should do nothingFear: begets a terrible astonishment and confusionFeared, lest disgrace should make such delinquents desperateFeminine polity has a mysterious procedureFew men have been admired by their own domesticsFew men have made a wife of a mistress, who have not repented itFirst informed who were to be the other guestsFirst thing to be considered in love matters: a fitting timeFlatterer in your old age or in your sicknessFollies do not make me laugh, it is our wisdom which doesFolly and absurdity are not to be cured by bare admonitionFolly of gaping after future thingsFolly satisfied with itself than any reason can reasonably beFolly than to be moved and angry at the follies of the worldFolly to hazard that upon the uncertainty of augmenting itFolly to put out their own light and shine by a borrowed lustreFor fear of the laws and report of menFor who ever thought he wanted sense?Fortune heaped up five or six such-like incidentsFortune rules in all thingsFortune sometimes seems to delight in taking us at our wordFortune will still be mistress of eventsFox, who found fault with what he could not obtainFriend, it is not now time to play with your nailsFriend, the hook will not stick in such soft cheeseFriendships that the law and natural obligation impose upon usFruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyedGain to change an ill condition for one that is uncertainGave them new and more plausible names for their excuseGentleman would play the fool to make a show of defenceGently to bear the inconstancy of a loverGewgaw to hang in a cabinet or at the end of the tongueGive but the rind of my attentionGive me time to recover my strength and healthGive the ladies a cruel contempt of our natural furnitureGive these young wenches the things they long forGive us history, more as they receive it than as they believe itGiving is an ambitious and authoritative qualityGlory and curiosity are the scourges of the soulGo out of ourselves, because we know not how there to resideGood does not necessarily succeed evil; another evil may succeedGood to be certain and finite, and evil, infinite and uncertainGot up but an inch upon the shoulders of the last, but oneGradations above and below pleasureGratify the gods and nature by massacre and murderGreat presumption to be so fond of one's own opinionsGreatest apprehensions, from things unseen, concealedGreatest talkers, for the most part, do nothing to purposeGreedy humour of new and unknown thingsGrief provokes itselfGross impostures of religionsGuess at our meaning under general and doubtful termsHappen to do anything commendable, I attribute it to fortuneHard to resolve a man's judgment against the common opinionsHaste trips up its own heels, fetters, and stops itselfHate all sorts of obligation and restraintHate remedies that are more troublesome than the disease itselfHave ever had a great respect for her I lovedHave more wherewith to defray my journey, than I have way to goHave no other title left me to these things but by the earsHave you ever found any who have been dissatisfied with dying?Having too good an opinion of our own worthHe cannot be good, seeing he is not evil even to the wickedHe did not think mankind worthy of a wise man's concernHe felt a pleasure and delight in so noble an actionHe judged other men by himselfHe may employ his passion, who can make no use of his reasonHe may well go a foot, they say, who leads his horse in his handHe must fool it a little who would not be deemed wholly a foolHe should discern in himself, as well as in othersHe took himself along with himHe who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fearsHe who is only a good man that men may know itHe who lays the cloth is ever at the charge of the feastHe who lives everywhere, lives nowhereHe who provides for all, provides for nothingHe who stops not the start will never be able to stop the courseHe will choose to be aloneHeadache should come before drunkennessHealth depends upon the vanity and falsity of their promisesHealth is altered and corrupted by their frequent prescriptionsHealth to be worth purchasing by all the most painful cauteriesHearing a philosopher talk of military affairsHeat and stir up their imagination, and then we find faultHelp: no other effect than that of lengthening my sufferingHigh time to die when there is more ill than good in livingHoary head and rivilled face of ancient usageHobbes said that if he Had been at college as long as others--Hold a stiff rein upon suspicionHome anxieties and a mind enslaved by wearing complaintsHomer: The only words that have motion and actionHonour of valour consists in fighting, not in subduingHow infirm and decaying material this fabric of ours isHow many and many times he has been mistaken in his own judgmentHow many more have died before they arrived at thy ageHow many several ways has death to surprise us?"How many things, " said he, "I do not desire!"How many worthy men have we known to survive their reputationHow much easier is it not to enter in than it is to get outHow much it costs him to do no worseHow much more insupportable and painful an immortal lifeHow uncertain duration these accidental conveniences areHumble out of prideHusbands hate their wives only because they themselves do wrongI always find superfluity superfluousI am a little tenderly distrustful of things that I wishI am apt to dream that I dreamI am disgusted with the world I frequentI am hard to be got out, but being once upon the roadI am no longer in condition for any great changeI am not to be cuffed into beliefI am plain and heavy, and stick to the solid and the probableI am very glad to find the way beaten before me by othersI am very willing to quit the government of my houseI bequeath to Areteus the maintenance of my motherI can more hardly believe a man's constancy than any virtueI cannot well refuse to play with my dogI content myself with enjoying the world without bustleI dare not promise but that I may one day be so much a foolI do not consider what it is now, but what it was thenI do not judge opinions by yearsI do not much lament the dead, and should envy them ratherI do not say that 'tis well said, but well thoughtI do not willingly alight when I am once on horsebackI enter into confidence with dyingI ever justly feared to raise my head too highI every day hear fools say things that are not foolishI find myself here fettered by the laws of ceremonyI find no quality so easy to counterfeit as devotionI for my part always went the plain way to workI grudge nothing but care and troubleI had much rather die than live upon charityI had rather be old a brief time, than be old before old ageI hail and caress truth in what quarter soever I find itI hate all sorts of tyranny, both in word and deedI hate poverty equally with painI have a great aversion from a novelty"I have done nothing to-day"--"What?
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