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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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We are born to inquire after truth it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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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]
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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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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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.
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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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