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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
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The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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Habit is a second nature.
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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