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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.
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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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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The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?
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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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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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