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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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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
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We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
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Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
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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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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
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Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
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~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~
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