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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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As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.
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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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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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