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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
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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I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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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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I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.
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I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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God defend me from myself.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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I do not teach. I relate.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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