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94 quotes (Page 2 of 4 pages)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 do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Lies and Lying
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.
Miracles
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.
Fear
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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage
Death and Dying
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 a common seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments.
Judgment and Judges
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
Poetry and Poets
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 death that alarms me, but dying.
Death and Dying
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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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
Government
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
Law and Lawyers
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do.
Nature
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
Candor
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
Lies and Lying
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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My art and profession is to live.
Life and Living
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.
Misfortunes
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.
Submission
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
Age and Aging
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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No wind favors him who has no destined port.
Goals
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
Goals
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