There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Quote by Michel De Montaigne
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Michel De Montaigne Quotes
- It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
- If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
- We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
- We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
- There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
- It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
- There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
- If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
- Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
- There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
Best Quotes
- Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
- Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
- Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
- Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.
- I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.
- It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!
- Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist.
- Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
- Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
- I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.