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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.

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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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My trade and art is to live.
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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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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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