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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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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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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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I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
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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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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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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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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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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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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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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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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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