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My trade and art is to live.
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 must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
Michel de Montaigne
Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.
Michel de Montaigne
The human face is a weak guarantee yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.
Michel de Montaigne
Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
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We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it
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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
Michel de Montaigne
One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
Michel de Montaigne
We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
Michel de Montaigne
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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