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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
Essayist
French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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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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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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And not to serve for a table-talk.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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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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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.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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