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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
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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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Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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