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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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
Jurist
Philosopher
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Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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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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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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