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I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.

I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.

Michel de Montaigne
Years, People, Age

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

Michel de Montaigne
Ambition, Support, Hatred

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

Michel de Montaigne
Memories, Lying, Men

Let every foot have its own shoe.

Michel de Montaigne
Shoes, Feet

A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.

Michel de Montaigne
Volunteer, Judgement, Risk
Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

Michel de Montaigne
Drinking, Opportunity, Mind
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.376, 谷月社

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

Michel de Montaigne
Writing, Vanity, Obvious
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.721, Stanford University Press

The thing I fear most is fear.

Michel de Montaigne
Inspirational, Fear, Political
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.53, Stanford University Press

The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.

Michel de Montaigne
Doctors, Matter, Common
Essays Bk l, Ch. 28 'Of Friendship'

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

Michel de Montaigne
Inspirational, Criminals, Crime
Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

Michel de Montaigne
Communication, Pleasure, Without Communication
Michel De Montaigne, James B Atkinson, David Sices (2012). “Selected Essays: With La Boetie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude”, p.39, Hackett Publishing

In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.

Michel de Montaigne
Change, Knowledge, Example
Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a common fault in those who think they have more intelligence than the crowd.

Michel de Montaigne
Stupid, Thinking, Crowds
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

Michel de Montaigne
Thinking, People, Ordinary

Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.

Michel de Montaigne
Believe, Writing, Defense
Michel de Montaigne (1979). “Essays”

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

Michel de Montaigne
Order, Lust, Opinion
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.312, Stanford University Press

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

Michel de Montaigne
Confidence, Honesty, Integrity
Michel de Montaigne (1907). “The Essays”

The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate.

Michel de Montaigne
Fate, Law, Heaven
"Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 12, 1595.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Michel de Montaigne
God, Confidence, Men
Michel de Montaigne (1912*). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

Michel de Montaigne
Betrayal, Lying, Men
Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.

Michel de Montaigne
Sea, Rivers, Firsts
Michel de Montaigne (1877). “Selected Essays”, p.2, Courier Corporation

There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in well-doing, that gives us an inward satisfaction, and a certain generous boldness that accompanies a good conscience.

Michel de Montaigne
Congratulations, Giving, Doe
Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.173, Courier Corporation

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

Michel de Montaigne
Overcoming, Natural, Altered
Michel de Montaigne, John Michael Cohen (1959). “Essays”, Penguin Classics

To know how to live is my trade and my art.

Michel de Montaigne
Art, Trade, Know How

Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.

Michel de Montaigne
Looks
Michel de Montaigne (1759). “The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: Translated Into English”, p.8

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