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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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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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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
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Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.
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Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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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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