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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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 virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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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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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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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Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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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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That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: Shut up, he said, so that they do not realize that you are here with me.
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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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I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.
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I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.
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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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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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