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I do not teach. I relate.

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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Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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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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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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Long life, and short, are by death made all one for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
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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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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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