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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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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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That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: Shut up, he said, so that they do not realize that you are here with me.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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We have power over nothing except our will.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
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Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.
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Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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