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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?
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Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
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I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.
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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover he only beats the water for another's net.
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It is no hard matter to get children but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.
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We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
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Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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