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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

Michel de Montaigne
Use, Weapons, Dangerous
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.588, 谷月社

A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

Michel de Montaigne
Half, Speech, Listeners

Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.

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Christian, Believe, Mean

Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.

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Attachment, Long, Vices
Michel de Montaigne (1973). “Selections from the Essays”, Harlan Davidson

Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t.

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Ignorance, Simplicity, Mind

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

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Pain, Giving, Mind
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.282, 谷月社

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

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Fear, Passion, Worry
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.208, Stanford University Press

Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

Michel de Montaigne
Passion, Ambition, Luxury

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Michel de Montaigne
Government, Vexation, States
Michel de Montaigne (1907). “The Essays”

What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.

Michel de Montaigne
Ignorance, Long, Ignorant
Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.

Michel de Montaigne
Spiritual, Mind, Remains

It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.

Michel de Montaigne
Alive, Conjecture, Accounts

I have seen people rude by being over-polite.

Michel de Montaigne
People, Rude, Polite
Michel de Montaigne, Marvin Lowenthal (1999). “The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times : His Childhood, Youth, and Prime : His Adventures in Love and Marriage, at Court, and in Office, War, Revolution, and Plague : His Travels at Home and Abroad : His Habits, Tastes, Whims, and Opinions”, p.97, David R. Godine Publisher

I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.

Michel de Montaigne
Confidence, Giving, Admire
Michel de Montaigne (1949). “Selected Essays: The Charles Cotton - W.C. Hazlitt Translation, Rev. and Edited, with an Introd”

Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.

Michel de Montaigne
Light, Practice, Diversity
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.239, Stanford University Press

Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.

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

Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

Michel de Montaigne
Drinking, Giving, Leisure

The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.

Michel de Montaigne
Fall, Archer, Doe

Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.

Michel de Montaigne
Book, Health, Loss

The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.

Michel de Montaigne
Inspirational, Life, Humanity

No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest of all virtues is true valor) and noble in its cause. No utility either more just or universal than the protection of the repose or defense of the greatness of one's country. The company and daily conversation of so many noble, young and active men cannot but be well-pleasing to you.

Michel de Montaigne
Country, Military, Exercise
Michel de Montaigne (1964). “Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio”

Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

Michel de Montaigne
Fear, Suffering
Michel de Montaigne (1902). “Essayes”

It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.

Michel de Montaigne
Imagination, People, Miracle
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.70, Stanford University Press

A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.

Michel de Montaigne
Women
Michel de Montaigne, Marvin Lowenthal (1999). “The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times : His Childhood, Youth, and Prime : His Adventures in Love and Marriage, at Court, and in Office, War, Revolution, and Plague : His Travels at Home and Abroad : His Habits, Tastes, Whims, and Opinions”, p.48, David R. Godine Publisher

What a man hates, he takes seriously.

Michel de Montaigne
Hate, Men
Michel de Montaigne, John Michael Cohen (1959). “Essays”, Penguin Classics

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