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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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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Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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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In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.
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To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
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Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.
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Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.
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Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.
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Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
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The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.
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It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction I love myself too well.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
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~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~
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