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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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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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 abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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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.
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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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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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My art and profession is to live.
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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