John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne. (1533–1592) (continued) |
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| Not because Socrates said so,… I look upon all men as my compatriots. |
| Book iii. Chap. ix. Of Vanity. |
| 9319 |
| My appetite comes to me while eating. 1 |
| Book iii. Chap. ix. Of Vanity. |
| 9320 |
| There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. |
| Book iii. Chap. ix. Of Vanity. |
| 9321 |
| Saturninus said, “Comrades, you have lost a good captain to make him an ill general.” |
| Book iii. Chap. ix. Of Vanity. |
| 9322 |
| A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity. 2 |
| Book iii. Chap. ix. Of Vanity. |
| 9323 |
| Habit is a second nature. 3 |
| Book iii. Chap. x. |
| 9324 |
| We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled. |
| Book iii. Chap. xi. Of Cripples. |
| 9325 |
| I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself. |
| Book iii. Chap. xi. Of Cripples. |
| 9326 |
| Men are most apt to believe what they least understand. |
| Book iii. Chap. xi. Of Cripples. |
| 9327 |
| I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together. |
| Book iii. Chap. xii. Of Physiognomy. |
| 9328 |
| Amongst so many borrowed things, I am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service. 4 |
| Book iii. Chap. xii. Of Physiognomy. |
| 9329 |
| I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have. |
| Book iii. Chap. xiii. Of Experience. |
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| There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret the things, and more books upon books than upon all other subjects; we do nothing but comment upon one another. |
| Book iii. Chap. xiii. Of Experience. |
| Note 1. See Rabelais, Quotation 7. [back] |
| Note 2. See Walpole, Quotation 3. [back] |
| Note 3. See Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Quotation 12. [back] |
| Note 4. See Churchill, Quotation 3. [back] |