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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
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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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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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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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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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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
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It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.
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