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13535 quotesFortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Fools and Foolishness
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
Memory
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
Service
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
Averages
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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I quote others in order to better express myself.
Quotations
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Marriage
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Communication
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.
Men
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
Greed
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.
Humankind
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.
Stubbornness
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
Virtue
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being.
Self-pity
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.
Poverty and The Poor
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.
Pleasure
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
Theory
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.
Beauty
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
Life and Living
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.
Purpose
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.
Self-sufficiency
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.
Victory
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
Memory
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Cheerfulness
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
Joy
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
Men
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun