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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover he only beats the water for another's net.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
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I am myself the matter of my book.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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