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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
Autobiographer
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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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It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~
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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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When we have got it, we want something else.
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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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Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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