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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
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Cowardice
Cruelty
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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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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Others form man I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
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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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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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