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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
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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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One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.
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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
Michel de Montaigne
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
Michel de Montaigne
Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
Michel de Montaigne
Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
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It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
Michel de Montaigne
Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
Michel de Montaigne
A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
Michel de Montaigne
The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
Michel de Montaigne
My trade and art is to live.
Michel de Montaigne
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.
Michel de Montaigne
