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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
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Ignorance
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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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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.
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It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.
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