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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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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.
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The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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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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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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