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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
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In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge of judgement and virtue, little news.
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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.
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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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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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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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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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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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