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Results of search for Author: Michel de Montaigne - Page 5 of 5 Showing results 41 to 49 of 49 total quotations found.
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Results from Poor Man's College:

He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Ambition is not a vice of little people.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

Results from Internet Collections: alt.quotations Archives:

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

Results from Contributed Quotations:

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
To set a mark we can seldom hit is not an honest game. We take good care not to be righteous according to the laws of God, and we make it impossible to be righteous according to our own. From the same sheet of paper on which a judge writes his sentence against an adulterer, he tears off a piece to scribble a love note to his colleague's wife.: Michele de Montaigne

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