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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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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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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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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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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me he does me most good when he does himself good.
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I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.
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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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The soul that has no established aim loses itself
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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