Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Inspirational
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.
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Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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No wind favors he who has no destined port.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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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.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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