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Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

Michel de Montaigne
Cost, Values

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Michel de Montaigne
Miracle, Monsters, World
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.295

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Michel de Montaigne
Attitude, Fear, Rich Or Poor
Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

Michel de Montaigne
Mind, Speak, My Own
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.108, Stanford University Press

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

Michel de Montaigne
Light, Miracle, Ordinary

Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.

Michel de Montaigne
Character, Doors, Example
Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

Michel de Montaigne
Wise, Wisdom, Loss
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 462-63, Essays, Of Solitude, 1922.

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

Michel de Montaigne
Marriage, Wife, Surprise

It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.

Michel de Montaigne
Sacrifice, Littles, Little Things

Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.

Michel de Montaigne
Life, Years, Numbers

Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.

Michel de Montaigne
Pain, Emotion, Pleasure

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

Michel de Montaigne
Death, Book, People

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

Michel de Montaigne
Friendship, Perfection, Degrees

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

Michel de Montaigne
World, Saws, Perpetual
Michel de Montaigne, John Michael Cohen (1959). “Essays”, Penguin Classics

There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Way, Opinion
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.786, Stanford University Press

The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, or to dispute, forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor. From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.

Michel de Montaigne
Spring, Simple, Men
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.511, 谷月社

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

Michel de Montaigne
Doe, Goodness
"Essays" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 25, 1595.

If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.

Michel de Montaigne
Heart, Yield, Self

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

Michel de Montaigne
Book, Boys, Hands
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.24, David R. Godine Publisher

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

Michel de Montaigne
Art, Use, Coins
Michel de Montaigne (1908). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

Michel de Montaigne
Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom
Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

Michel de Montaigne
Mind, Spirited, Contractions
Michel de Montaigne (1973). “Selections from the Essays”, Harlan Davidson

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

Michel de Montaigne
Truth, Firsts, Common
Michel de Montaigne (2013). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne (107 annotated essays in 1 eBook + The Life of Montaigne + The Letters of Montaigne)”, p.217, e-artnow

The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.

Michel de Montaigne
Birth, Wells
"Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 20, 1595.

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

Michel de Montaigne
Science, Men, Proud
Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.518

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