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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 plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
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We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
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What am I to choose? Choose what you please, as long as you choose. There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
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'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
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Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
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Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.
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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
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All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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I am myself the matter of my book.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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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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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.
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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
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