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He loves little who loves by rule.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?
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Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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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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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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Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
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