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We are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stones.

We are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stones.

Michel de Montaigne
Snow, Weight, Stones
Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.

Michel de Montaigne
Pain, Iron, Alliances
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.838, Stanford University Press

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

Michel de Montaigne
Good Marriage, Endeavor, Refuse

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

Michel de Montaigne
Desire, Our Future

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Michel de Montaigne
Dying, Alarms, Death And Dying
Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 13, 1595.

Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their.

Michel de Montaigne
Lovers, Speak, All Things

Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.

Michel de Montaigne
Christian, Simple, Men

There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.

Michel de Montaigne
Answers, Moments, Passing

To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

Michel de Montaigne
Reform, Way, Sticks
Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.190, Courier Corporation

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.

Michel de Montaigne
Evil, Wickedness, Known
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays:”, p.20, Sheba Blake Publishing

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

Michel de Montaigne
Laughter, Laughing, Peculiar

Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.

Michel de Montaigne
Endurance, Tests, Violence
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.266, Stanford University Press

I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?

Michel de Montaigne
Sports, Medicine, Rocks

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.

Michel de Montaigne
Mind, Contractions, Weariness
Michel de Montaigne (1980). “Essays”

The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.

Michel de Montaigne
Advice, Secret, Burden
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 10-11, Essays, III. 1, 1922.

You have your face bare; I am all face.

Michel de Montaigne
Faces, Your Face
Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.435, Delphi Classics

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

Michel de Montaigne
Funny, Marriage, Witty
Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.

Michel de Montaigne
Beauty, Truth, Believe
Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.

Michel de Montaigne
Goodness, Difficulty, Reports
Michel de Montaigne (1903*). “Essays of Montaigne”

Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.

Michel de Montaigne
Wisdom, Philosophical, Two
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.449, Stanford University Press

No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.

Michel de Montaigne
Should, Force
Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and nobler as they roll along: follow them back upstream to their sources and all you find is a tiny spring, hardly recognizable; as time goes by it swells with pride and grows in strength.

Michel de Montaigne
Spring, Pride, Law
Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.

Michel de Montaigne
Hate, Hunting, Vices
Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Solitude, Lust

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

Michel de Montaigne
Riches, Opinion, Glory

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