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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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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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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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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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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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He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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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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Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
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What am I to choose? Choose what you please, as long as you choose. There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
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Others form man I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
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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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