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Michel de Montaigne
If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
Michel de Montaigne
Love
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Ambition
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Human Nature
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Competition
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Priorities
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Caution
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Time Management
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Purpose
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Mindfulness
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Ceremony
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Greatness
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Military
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Intellect
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Genius
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Efficiency
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Desire
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Innovation
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Metaphor
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Individuality
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Strength
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Death
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Temptation
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Men
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Loneliness
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More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
“The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.”
Michel de Montaigne
Wealth
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Soul
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Spiritual Poverty
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Values
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Human Condition
“Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.”
Michel de Montaigne
Valor
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Strength
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Character
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Human Nature
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Inner Qualities
“True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.”
Michel de Montaigne
Freedom
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Self-control
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Power
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Human Nature
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Wisdom
“We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.”
Michel de Montaigne
Truth
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Inquiry
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Knowledge
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Human Nature
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Divinity
“I would have every man write what he knows and no more.”
Michel de Montaigne
Knowledge
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Writing
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Honesty
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Wisdom
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Self-awareness
“Women are not entirely wrong when they reject the moral rules proclaimed in society, since it is we men alone who have made them.”
Michel de Montaigne
Gender
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Morality
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Society
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Critique
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Feminism
“Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.”
Michel de Montaigne
Opinion
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Stubbornness
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Stupidity
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Wisdom
,
Human Nature
“Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.”
Michel de Montaigne
Obsession
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Genius
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Madness
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Human Nature
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Creativity
“Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.”
Michel de Montaigne
Patience
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Experience
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Misfortune
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Wisdom
,
Human Nature
“Death pays all debts.”
Michel de Montaigne
Death
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Debts
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Mortality
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Human Condition
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Philosophy
“Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.”
Michel de Montaigne
Self-reflection
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Escapism
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Future
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Human Nature
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Avoidance
“I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.”
Michel de Montaigne
Self-perception
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Humility
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Paradox
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Human Nature
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Wisdom
“There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.”
Michel de Montaigne
Fear
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Contagion
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Emotion
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Human Nature
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Psychology
“To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.”
Michel de Montaigne
Books
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Distraction
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Mental Health
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Reading
,
Solace
“Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.”
Michel de Montaigne
Education
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Wisdom
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Ability
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Knowledge
,
Human Development
“To understand via the heart is not to understand.”
Michel de Montaigne
Understanding
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Emotion
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Reason
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Wisdom
,
Human Nature
“Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.”
Michel de Montaigne
Happiness
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Purpose
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Goals
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Motivation
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Life Philosophy
“It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.”
Michel de Montaigne
Intellect
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Interaction
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Growth
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Learning
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Social Engagement
“When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.”
Michel de Montaigne
Pain
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Pleasure
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Philosophy
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Human Experience
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Perspective
“May God defend me from myself.”
Michel de Montaigne
Self-awareness
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Prayer
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Human Nature
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Introspection
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Divine Protection
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