Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

(345 votes)   Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(327 votes)   Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(324 votes)   The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(315 votes)   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 Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(305 votes)   An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(294 votes)   Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(284 votes)   I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(280 votes)   Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(276 votes)   When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(241 votes)   He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(220 votes)   The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(179 votes)   Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(176 votes)   Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(162 votes)   What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?

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1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(155 votes)   In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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