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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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I do not teach. I relate.
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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The world always looks straights ahead as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward as for me, I roll about in myself.
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