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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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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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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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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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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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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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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
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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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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.
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I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
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