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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Virtue
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Craggy
Thorny
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
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After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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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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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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