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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
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.
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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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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
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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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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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The most universal quality is diversity.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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