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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.
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Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
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I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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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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Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
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We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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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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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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