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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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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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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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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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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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If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould
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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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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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