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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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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction I love myself too well.
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As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
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The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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