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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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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
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It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.
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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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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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A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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