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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
Autobiographer
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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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We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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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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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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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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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
Michel de Montaigne
Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
Michel de Montaigne
