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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
French Philosopher
Born: Feb 28, 1533
Died: Sep 13, 1592
Good Life Man Me Myself You
Related authors: Albert Camus Blaise Pascal Henri Bergson Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Paul Sartre Montesquieu Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Simone Weil
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason. Michel de Montaigne
Will Lust Monstrous Say Find Restraint Morals More Opinions Than Same Order Depraved Less Reason Many Thing Things
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them. Michel de Montaigne
Me Ugly Worst Dare Find Seem Both Unto Conditions Them Actions Base
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep. Michel de Montaigne
Life Dreams Sleeping Our Those Dream Were Wake Waking Who Compared Right Sleep
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. Michel de Montaigne
Wisdom Good Happy Mind Rich Wretch Maketh Poor Ill
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. Michel de Montaigne
Dangerous Weapon He Wit Knows How Discreetly Use Even
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it. Michel de Montaigne
Truth Debate Publish Those Seek Unresolved Put Schools Questions Establish Doubtful Notions Who Forward
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream. Michel de Montaigne
Life Love Soul Eyes World Real Life Gave Dream Seem He Knew Him Around Real His Things
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. Michel de Montaigne
Wise Man Wise Man Ought Sees He Much
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think. Michel de Montaigne
Speak Think Shame Ashamed Us Let Us
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself. Michel de Montaigne
Myself Me Man Tell He Feel Him Because Answering Wherefore Loved Cannot Urge Expressed
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. Michel de Montaigne
Enjoy Virtually Our Rightfully Absolute Divine Perfection Know How Being
Few men have been admired of their familiars. Michel de Montaigne
Men Few Admired Been Few Men
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany. Michel de Montaigne
Germany Same Natives Title Christians
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. Michel de Montaigne
Virtue Thorny Way Facility She Requires Companion Rough Her Rejects
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