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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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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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Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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