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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Cowardice
Cruelty
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Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it he sees knowledge and does not use it.
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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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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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Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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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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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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