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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
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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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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.
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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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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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