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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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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
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We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity we are not so wretched as we are base
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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
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If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
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To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
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