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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
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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Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
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I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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