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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.

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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
Poet Lawyer
Politician
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Building
Solid
Wisdom
Keeps
Place
Piece
Every
Entire
Mark
Intelligence
Bears
Pieces

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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.
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Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
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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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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
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There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.
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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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