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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.
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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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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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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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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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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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.
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I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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