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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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Habit is a second nature.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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And not to serve for a table-talk.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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It needs courage to be afraid.
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Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
Michel de Montaigne
If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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