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For this reason, mixing with men is wonderfully useful, and visiting foreign countries […] to bring back knowledge of the characters and ways of those nations, and to rub and polish our brains by contact with those of others.

[A cette cause le commerce des hommes y est merveilleusement propre, & la visite des pays estrangers […] pour en rapporter principalement les humeurs de ces nations & leurs façons : & pour frotter & limer nostre cervelle contre celle d’autruy.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 25 (1.25), “Of the Education of Children [De l’institution des enfans]” (1579) [tr. Frame (1943), ch. 26]

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Montaigne, Michel de - Essays, Book 1, ch. 25 (1.25), "Of the Education of Children [De l’institution des enfans]" (1579) [tr. Frame (1943), ch. 26] | WIST Quotations

For this reason, mixing with men is wonderfully useful, and visiting foreign countries [...] to bring back knowledge of the characters and ways of those nations, and to rub and polish our brains by contact with those of others. [A cette cause le commerce des hommes y est merveilleusement propre,…

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A quotation from Montaigne

No wind serves him who has no port of destination.

[Nul vent fait pour celuy qui n’a point de port destiné.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 1 (2.1), “Of the Inconsistency of Our Actions [De l’inconstance de nos actions]” (1572) [tr. Zeitlin (1934)]

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Montaigne, Michel de - Essays, Book 2, ch. 1 (2.1), "Of the Inconsistency of Our Actions [De l’inconstance de nos actions]" (1572) [tr. Zeitlin (1934)] | WIST Quotations

No wind serves him who has no port of destination. [Nul vent fait pour celuy qui n’a point de port destiné. ] This passage was in the essays initial 1580 printing. Likely from a quotation of Seneca the Younger (1st C AD). (Source (French)). Alternate translations: No winde makes for…

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Diario ERC Jun 2

El Estado personifica a la Nación, dándole personalidad jurídica. La nación es la regla de oro.

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El Estado personifica a la Nación prestándola una personalidad jurídica. La nación es siempre la regla de oro. Fuente: RLC, emisión del 14 de Mayo del 2017. Edición: Juan Antº. Pérez Locución: David Cabrera Dirección técnica: Carlos Ferrándiz Coordinación producción: César Bobadilla Visite mcrc.diarioerc.com y asóciese al Movimiento de Ciudadanos hacia la República Constitucional Radio

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Craig Constantine Apr 1, 2022

The number of days

Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little. Make use of time while it is present with you. It depends upon your will, and not upon the number of days, to have a sufficient length of life.

~ Michel de Montaigne

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Presence, not pursuit.

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Craig Constantine Apr 5, 2022

Folly

What a ridiculous thing it is to trouble ourselves about taking the only step that is to deliver us from all trouble! As our birth brought us the birth of all things, so in our death is the death of all things included. And therefore to lament that we shall not be alive a hundred years hence, is the same folly as to be sorry we were not alive a hundred years ago.

~ Michel de Montaigne

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Presence, not pursuit.

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Craig Constantine Apr 9, 2022

Unprofitable

If you have not known how to make the best use of it, if it was unprofitable to you, what need you care to lose it, to what end would you desire longer to keep it?

~ Michel de Montaigne

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Presence, not pursuit.

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A quotation from Montaigne

A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.

[Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

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Montaigne, Michel de - Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), "Of Presumption [De la Presomption]" (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)] | WIST Quotations

A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery. [Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement,…

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A quotation from Montaigne

There is another kind of “glory”: conceiving too high an opinion of our worth. This is an undeserved feeling by which we value ourselves, and that makes us think ourselves different than we are, just as the passion of love lends beauties and graces to the object it embraces and makes those smitten by it — with their judgment blurred and altered — find what they love different, and more perfect, than it is.

[Il y a une autre sorte de gloire, qui est une trop bonne opinion, que nous concevons de nostre valeur. C’est un’affection inconsideree, dequoy nous nous cherissons, qui nous represente à nous mesmes, autres que nous ne sommes. Comme la passion amoureuse preste des beautez, & des graces, au subject qu’elle embrasse ; & fait que ceux qui en sont espris, trouvent d’un jugement trouble & alteré, ce qu’ils aiment, autre & plus parfait qu’il n’est.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Atkinson/Sices (2012)]

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Montaigne, Michel de - Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), "Of Presumption [De la Presomption]" (1578) [tr. Atkinson/Sices (2012)] | WIST Quotations

There is another kind of "glory": conceiving too high an opinion of our worth. This is an undeserved feeling by which we value ourselves, and that makes us think ourselves different than we are, just as the passion of love lends beauties and graces to the object it embraces and…

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Craig Constantine Mar 20

Difficult passages

I don’t wear down my nails over some difficult passage in a book; I’ll make one or two forays, then if that fails I’ll give up. My mind is only really made for leapfrogging. What I don’t make out at the first attempt, I strain to see through an even deeper murk at every renewed effort.

~ Michel de Montaigne

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Craig Constantine

Presence, not pursuit.

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