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Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
A man must become wise at this own expense.
Indignation is the seducer of thought. No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
Character | Indignation | Man | Thought | Think |
If the universe be in man (as a scale of reality) as well as man in the universe, then if a man gives an inferior explanation of the universe it will react on himself; he will limit himself and remain inferior to his own potential being.
Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
No man profits but by the loss of others.
Paul Muni, born Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund
The man who never made an enemy never made anything.
Plautus, full name Titus Maccius Plautus NULL
See all things, not in process of becoming, but in Being, and see themselves in the other. Each being contains in itself the whole intelligible world. Therefore All is everywhere. Each is there All, and All is each. Man as he now is has ceased to be the All. But when he ceases to be an individual, he raises himself again and penetrates the whole world.
Character | Individual | Man | World |
Until man places on tolerance and open-mindedness a value equal to the value that he places on material possessions, he will continue to be stranded on an island surrounded by his own prejudices, ideas, preconceived opinions, and knowledge that is limited by the horizon of his own ignorance.
Character | Ideas | Ignorance | Knowledge | Man | Possessions | Will | Wisdom | Value |