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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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We have power over nothing except our will.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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