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Letter "M" » Michel de Montaigne Quotes
«Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.»
«One may be humble out of pride.»
«The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar»
«And with Epicurus, I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
consequence, coveted, Epicurus, terminate, terminated, terminates, terminating
«There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Communication
| Keywords:
communication, grieve, one to, produced, sprightlier, sprightly
«To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death....»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Death
| Keywords:
adopt, deprive, frequent, strangeness
«In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books»
«The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
daughter-in-law, in-law, lay aside, modesty, Pythagoras, skirt, The Daughter in Law
«Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.»
«Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Fame,
Tranquility
| Keywords:
bedfellow, bedfellows, tranquility
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