240 ordspråk av Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
As plants are suffocated and drowned with too much moisture, and lamps with too much oil, so is the active part of the understanding with too much study
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But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
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Confidence in another man's virtue is no slight evidence of one's own
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Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Desire and hope will push us on toward the future
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue
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Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved
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Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
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Even those who argue against fame still want the books they write against it to bear their name in the title and hope to become famous for despising it.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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Every man beareth the whole stamp of the human condition
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