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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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The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.
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Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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My trade and art is to live.
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The most universal quality is diversity.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all they will chew our meat for us.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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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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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.
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