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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
Michel de Montaigne
The thing I fear most is fear.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
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If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
Michel de Montaigne
Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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I do not teach. I relate.
Michel de Montaigne
We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
Michel de Montaigne
I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
Michel de Montaigne
Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
Michel de Montaigne
What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
Michel de Montaigne
