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The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
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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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.
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