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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.

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
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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