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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.

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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 plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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The human face is a weak guarantee yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
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