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“Saying is one thing and doing is another.”

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Michel De Montaigne buch Essays

Book II, Ch. 31
Essais (1595), Book II

“We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.”

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Quelle: The Essays: A Selection

“Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.”

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Quelle: The Complete Essays

“It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.”

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Quelle: The Complete Essays

“The thing I fear most is fear.”

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C'est de quoi j'ai le plus de peur que la peur.
Book I, ch, 18
Essais (1595), Book I
Quelle: The Complete Essays

“Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.”

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Quelle: The Complete Essays

“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.”

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Quelle: Cannibales

“Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.”

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Quelle: The Essays: A Selection

“I want us to be doing things, prolonging life's duties as much as we can. I want death to find me planting my cabbages, neither worrying about it nor the unfinished gardening.”

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“The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.”

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Quelle: The Complete Essays

“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.”

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“When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.”

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“Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.”

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Variante: Kings and philosophers shit—and so do ladies.

“Let every foot have its own shoe.”

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Quelle: The Essays: A Selection

“Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.”

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Michel De Montaigne

Quelle: The Essays: A Selection