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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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There is nothing useless in nature not even uselessness itself
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.
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Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.
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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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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.
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Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
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The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat
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There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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