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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.
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If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry I will find you another who will not agree with him.
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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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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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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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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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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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What am I to choose? Choose what you please, as long as you choose. There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
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Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
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Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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