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## Michel de Montaigne quotes on ethics

1. > All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.

[Permalink to quote \#9](https://quotesby.net/Michel-de-Montaigne/9/ "Permalink to quote 9")
2. > Every other knowledge is harmful to he who does not have knowledge of goodness.

[Permalink to quote \#16](https://quotesby.net/Michel-de-Montaigne/16/ "Permalink to quote 16")
3. > Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.

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4. > Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet- the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

[Permalink to quote \#60](https://quotesby.net/Michel-de-Montaigne/60/ "Permalink to quote 60")
5. > There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

[Permalink to quote \#129](https://quotesby.net/Michel-de-Montaigne/129/ "Permalink to quote 129")
6. > We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

[Permalink to quote \#140](https://quotesby.net/Michel-de-Montaigne/140/ "Permalink to quote 140")

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