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The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

Michel de Montaigne
Daughter, Men, Law
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.

Michel de Montaigne
Wisdom, Intelligence, Pieces
Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.1327, Delphi Classics

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.

Michel de Montaigne
Powerful, Tradition, Customs
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.1033, 谷月社

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

Michel de Montaigne
Science, Medicine, Bitterness
Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.408, Delphi Classics

My appetite comes to me while eating.

Michel de Montaigne
Eating, Appetite
Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). “Essays [tr. by Cotton”, p.282

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!

Michel de Montaigne
God, Heart, Men

I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

Michel de Montaigne
History, May, Hours
Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.669

For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet, hands, legs, shoulders, head, according as custom invites us. For if there is a part of us that is tender and that seems as though it should fear the cold, it should be the stomach, where digestion takes place; our fathers left it uncovered, and our ladies, soft and delicate as they are, sometimes go half bare down to the navel.

Michel de Montaigne
Father, Feet, Air
Michel de Montaigne (1965). “Complete Essays”, p.334, Stanford University Press

Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.

Michel de Montaigne
Sound
"Essays". Book by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Chapter XII, February 15, 1857.

Whatever can be done another day can be done today.

Michel de Montaigne
Done, Today, Another Day
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.61, Stanford University Press

We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.

Michel de Montaigne
Wisdom, Joy, Sorrow

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

Michel de Montaigne
Expectations, Enemy, Please

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

Michel de Montaigne
Kings, Flattery, Vermin

Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not; others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.

Michel de Montaigne
Believe, Numbers, World
Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.675, Delphi Classics

We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.

Michel de Montaigne
Offers
Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.1274, Delphi Classics

There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

Michel de Montaigne
Book, Scarcity, Interpretation
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.1093, 谷月社

Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

Michel de Montaigne
Pride, Two, Soul
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

As for extraordinary things, all the provision in the world would not suffice.

Michel de Montaigne
World, Provision, Extraordinary Things
"Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 14, 1595.

As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.

Michel de Montaigne
Physicians, Chance, Valuable
"Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 37, 1595.

If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.

Michel de Montaigne
Decision, Mind, Trials
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.611, Stanford University Press

I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.

Michel de Montaigne
Chance, Commit, Consultation
Michel de Montaigne (1853). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.432

The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.

Michel de Montaigne
Shapes, Limits, Sides
Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

Michel de Montaigne
Delight, Bittersweet, Kind

If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

Michel de Montaigne
Giving, Good Humor, Spoil
Michel de Montaigne (1892*). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

Michel de Montaigne
Society, Substance, Body
Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

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