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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.

Michel de Montaigne
Strong, Philosophy, Philosophical

Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.

Michel de Montaigne
Fashion, Men, Self
Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.

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Passion, Different, Firsts
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.540, Stanford University Press

Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life; not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.

Michel de Montaigne
Book, Self, Hands
Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

Michel de Montaigne
Dream, Art, Nature

Habit is second nature.

Michel de Montaigne
Nature, Habit
"Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.

Michel de Montaigne
Hurt, Giving, Royalty
"Montaigne's Essays".

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Michel de Montaigne
Book, Fool, Good Book

We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.

Michel de Montaigne
Stones, Obedience, Temperance
Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt, Orlando Williams Wight (1866). “Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters”, p.80

Whatever is preached to us, and whatever we learn, we should still remember that it is man that gives, and man that receives; it is a mortal hand that presents it to us, it is a mortal hand that accepts it.

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Hands, Giving
Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.800, Delphi Classics

True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.

Michel de Montaigne
Freedom, School, Self Confidence

The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.

Michel de Montaigne
Writing, Hitting, Common
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.216

Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.

Michel de Montaigne
Stupid, Stupidity, Harm

How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Survival, Reputation
Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

Michel de Montaigne
Popular Vote, Judging, Political
Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

Michel de Montaigne
Law, Customs, Conscience

It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.

Michel de Montaigne
Blow, Cowardice, Holes
Michel de Montaigne (1925). “The essays of Montaigne”

Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Agreement, Heaven
Michel de Montaigne (1877). “Essays”, p.314

Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.

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

Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing. . . . I do not understand it. . . . Nothing seems true that may not seem false." Their sacramental word is . . . , which is to say, I suspend my judgment.

Michel de Montaigne
Understanding, May, Way

He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

Michel de Montaigne
Reading, Force, Seems
Michel de Montaigne (1759). “The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: Translated Into English”, p.330

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

Michel de Montaigne
Self, Opinion, Sin

I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.

Michel de Montaigne
Trust, Kings, Believe
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”

We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.

Michel de Montaigne
Sports, Running, Children
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.416, 谷月社

I do not understand; I pause; I examine.

Michel de Montaigne
Pauses
Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt, Orlando Williams Wight (1859). “Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Journey Into Italy, and Letters”, p.108

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