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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.
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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
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God defend me from myself.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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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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The soul that has no established aim loses itself
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I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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We have power over nothing except our will.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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