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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
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