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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.

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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
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We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.
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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
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Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
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The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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