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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
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Human
Sentiments
Humans
Resolution
Stupidity
Accidents
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Stupid
Wisdom
Sentiment
Suffering
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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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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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
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