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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
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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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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And not to serve for a table-talk.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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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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We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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