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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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