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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.
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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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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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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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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
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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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