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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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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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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
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Others form man I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.
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Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking
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Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
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A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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