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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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The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
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Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
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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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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
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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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After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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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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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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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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