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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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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God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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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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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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I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
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Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
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The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
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