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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.

A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.

Michel de Montaigne
Travel, Journey, Men
"Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection".

... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.

Michel de Montaigne
Believe, Charity, Belief
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.786, Stanford University Press

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

Michel de Montaigne
Beauty, Men, Stature
Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). “Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator”, p.525

Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.

Michel de Montaigne
Cowardice
"Essais". Book by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 14, 1595.

To know much is often the cause of doubting more.

Michel de Montaigne
Doubt, Causes, Knows
"Essais". Book by Michel de Montaigne, 1588.

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Practice, Waiting
Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.

Michel de Montaigne
Medicine, Sick, Democracy

Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

Michel de Montaigne
Dream, Art, Faithful
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.1257, Xist Publishing

I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by too much water or lamps by too much oil; that our minds, held fast and encumbered by so many diverse preoccupations, may well lose the means of struggling free, remaining bowed and bent under the load; except that it is quite otherwise: the more our souls are filled, the more they expand; examples drawn from far-off times show, on the contrary, that great soldiers ad statesmen were also great scholars.

Michel de Montaigne
Educational, Struggle, Mean
Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

Michel de Montaigne
Philosophical, Men, Words Of Wisdom
Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

Michel de Montaigne
Desire, May, Virtue

I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.

Michel de Montaigne
Victory, Complaining, Fortune
Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally to give way to them, according to their condition and our own, we ought to grant free passage to diseases; and I find they stay less with me who let them alone. And I have lost those which are reputed the most tenacious and obstinate of their own defervescence, without any help or art, and contrary to their rules. Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

Michel de Montaigne
Art, Giving, Evil
Michel de Montaigne (1856). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.531

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

Michel de Montaigne
Book, Learning, Study
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.494, Stanford University Press

If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

Michel de Montaigne
Corn, Toes, Sullen
Michel de Montaigne (1908). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

Michel de Montaigne
Paramount, Repose, Gentleness

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

Michel de Montaigne
Death, Oneself

It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.

Michel de Montaigne
Happiness, Giving, Enjoy Life

The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

Michel de Montaigne
Wisdom, Moon, States
"The Works of Michael de Montaigne".

Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.

Michel de Montaigne
Attitude, Law Of Attraction, Events

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Two, Mind
Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (2010). “Literary and Philosophical Essays”, p.57, Cosimo, Inc.

All general judgments are loose and imperfect

Michel de Montaigne
Judgement, Imperfect, Judgment

It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well.

Michel de Montaigne
Lying, Wish, I Love Myself

I am myself the matter of my book.

Michel de Montaigne
Book, Matter
Essais "Au Lecteur" (1580)

Time steals away without any inconvenience.

Michel de Montaigne
Time, Stealing, Inconvenience
Michel de Montaigne (1877). “Selected Essays”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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