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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.
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When we have got it, we want something else.
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Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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