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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
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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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The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.
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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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