| 44 Famous Quotes by Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
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“What's done can't be undone.
[Fr., Ce qui est faicr ne se peult desfaire.]”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essays (III)
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“And neglected his task for the flowers on the way.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essays (III)
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“Blest tears of soul-felt penitence!
In whose benign, redeeming flow
Is felt the first, the only sense
Of guiltless joy that guilt can know.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essays (III)
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“Bliss itself is not worth having,
If we're by compulsion blest.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essays (III)
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“Light may come where all looks darkest,
Hope hath life, when life seems o'er.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essays (III)
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“Oh, sweet youth, how soon it fades!
Sweet joys of youth, how fleeting!”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essays (III)
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“Round, round, while thus we go round,
The best thing a man can do,
Is to make it at least, a merry-go-round,
By--sending the wine round too.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essays (III)
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“So closely our whims on our miseries tread,
That the laugh is awak'd ere the tear can be dried.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essays (III)
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“Some flowers of Eden ye yet inherit,
But the trail of the serpent is over them all.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essays (III)
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“The pain
Remembrance gives, when the fix'd dart
Is stirred thus in the wound again.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essays (III)
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“Then fill the bowl--way with gloom!
Our joys shall always last;
For Hope shall brighten days to come,
And Mem'ry gild the past.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essays (III)
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“Then let me quaff the foamy tide,
And through the dance meandering glide.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essays (III)
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“Time flies, as he flies, adds increase to her truth,
And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essays (III)
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“To-night, at least, to-night be gay,
Whate'er to-morrow brings.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essays (III)
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“While tears that from repentance flow,
In bright exhalement reach the skies.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essays (III)
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“Whose wit in the combat as gentle as bright
Ne'er carried a heartstain away on its blade.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essays (III)
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“Wouldst thou, or thou,
Forego what's now,
For all that hope may say?
No--joy's reply,
From every eye,
Is, "Live we while we may."”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essays (III)
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“You may break, you may shatter the vase, as you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essays (III)
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“Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well
instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and
obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.”
Christianity Quotes Source: Essays--Of Vain Subleties
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“Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and
perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears
leisurely lick their clubs into shape.”
Growth Quotes Source: Apology for Raimond Sebond (bk. II, ch. XII)
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“"Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect
himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire,
but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the
hand, the armful bigger then the arm, and to hope to stride
further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and
monstrous. . . . He may lift himself if God lend him His hand of
special grace; he may lift himself . . . by means wholly
celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his
Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous
metamorphosis.”
Growth Quotes Source: Essays (bk. II, ch. XII)
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“Whom conscience, ne'er asleep,
Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.”
Conscience Quotes Source: Essays--Of Conscience (bk. II, ch. V)
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“He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them
to live.”
Example Quotes Source: Essays (bk. I, ch. XIX)
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“There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two
hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
- Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,”
Opinion Quotes Source: Essays--Of the Resemblance of Children to their Fathers
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“Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at
the expense of life.”
Opinion Quotes Source: Of Good and Evil (ch. XL)
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