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Letter "M" » Michel de Montaigne Quotes
«He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.»
«He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat»
«Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
abridge, abridged, abridgement, abridges, abridging, Good Book
«It might well be said of me that here I have merely made up a bunch of other men's flowers, and provided nothing of my own but the string to bind them.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
bind, bunch, made-up, of my own, provided, string
«We are all convention; convention carries us away, and we neglect the substance of things. . . / We dare not call our parts by their right names, but are not afraid to use them for every sort of debauchery.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
convention, debaucheries, debauchery, neglect, substance
«Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.»
«Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
lying, meddle, meddled, meddles, meddle with, sufficiently
«Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.»
«The Romans taught their children nothing that was to be learned sitting»
«Wickedness sucks in the greater part of its own venom and poisons itself therewith»
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