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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Intelligence, Able
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.1231, Xist Publishing

To understand via the heart is not to understand.

Michel de Montaigne
Heart

A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Meditation, Solitude
'Essais' (1580) bk. 1, ch. 39

The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.

Michel de Montaigne
Sight, Grace, Good Man
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.84, 谷月社

My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.

Michel de Montaigne
Daughter, Home, Men
Michel de Montaigne (1956). “Autobiography: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times ...”

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

Michel de Montaigne
World, Problem, Trouble

We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?

Michel de Montaigne
Death, Grief, Evil
Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton (1711). “Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,”, p.360

A man may be humble through vainglory.

Michel de Montaigne
Humble, Men, May
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.479, Stanford University Press

Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.

Michel de Montaigne
Education, Children, Freedom
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.123, Stanford University Press

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

Michel de Montaigne
Giving, Stupidity, Quality
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.319, Stanford University Press

A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.

Michel de Montaigne
War, Civil War

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.

Michel de Montaigne
Children, Father, Parent
Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.623, Delphi Classics

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

Michel de Montaigne
Command

If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.

Michel de Montaigne
Food, Wine, Sleep

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

Michel de Montaigne
Life, Self, Grants
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”

Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.

Michel de Montaigne
God, Dream, Knowledge

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

Michel de Montaigne
Pleasure, Embrace

Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?

Michel de Montaigne
Stubborn, Serious, Heat

Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man.... It is impossible to go back further and lower. He did a great favor to human nature by showing how much it can do by itself.

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Heaven, Favors

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

Michel de Montaigne
Inspirational, Faith, Thinking
"The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, p.104, 1989.

Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.

Michel de Montaigne
Sweet, Nature, Prudent
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.399

A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it

Michel de Montaigne
Pain, Men, May
Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.97, Courier Corporation

Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.

Michel de Montaigne
Use, Worship, Found
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.697, Xist Publishing

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Different, Portraiture

And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.

Michel de Montaigne
Shoulders, New Words
Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton (1711). “Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,”, p.121

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