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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
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
Michel de Montaigne
It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
Michel de Montaigne
Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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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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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
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We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?
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Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]
Michel de Montaigne
We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
Michel de Montaigne
Death pays all debts.
Michel de Montaigne
I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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