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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.
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Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
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'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
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There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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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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The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
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