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One may be humble out of pride.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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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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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.
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Death pays all debts.
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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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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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Saying is one thing and doing is another
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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