16th century

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson quote: “A woman, the more curious she is…”

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Poet quotes

Vincent Voiture quote: “Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells…”

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Mathematician

Rene Descartes quote: “You just keep pushing. You just keep…”

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Mathematician

Rene Descartes quote: “Travelling is almost like talking with those…”

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Mathematician

Rene Descartes quote: “When it is not in our power…”

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Rene Descartes quote: “Whenever anyone has offended me, I try…”

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Mathematician

Rene Descartes quote: “The senses deceive from time to time…”

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Mathematician

Rene Descartes quote: “The two operations of our understanding, intuition…”

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Rene Descartes quote: “There is nothing so strange and so…”

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Rene Descartes quote: “The reading of all good books is…”

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Rene Descartes quote: “The first precept was never to accept…”

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Rene Descartes quote: “The greatest minds are capable of the…”

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Mathematician

Rene Descartes quote: “I think; therefore I am…”

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Mathematician

Rene Descartes quote: “One cannot conceive anything so strange and…”

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Mathematician

Rene Descartes quote: “Perfect numbers like perfect men are very…”

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Mathematician

Rene Descartes quote: “Everything is self-evident…”

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne quote: “Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to…”

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne quote: “We can be knowledgeable with other men’s…”

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne quote: “We only labor to stuff the memory…”

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne quote: “When I play with my cat, who…”

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne quote: “Valor is stability, not of legs and…”

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne quote: “Virtue rejects facility to be her companion…”

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne quote: “We are Christians by the same title…”

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne quote: “Those who have compared our life to…”

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne quote: “‘Tis the sharpness of our mind that…”

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne quote: “Unless a man feels he has a…”

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne quote: “There is no pleasure to me without…”

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Family quotes

Michel de Montaigne quote: “There is not much less vexation in…”

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne quote: “There is perhaps no more obvious vanity…”

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne quote: “There is no conversation more boring than…”

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