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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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It needs courage to be afraid.
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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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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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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