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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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 continuous work of our life is to build death.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me he does me most good when he does himself good.
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One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
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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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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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I do not teach. I relate.
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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.
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The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota for my knowledge I cannot answer.
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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