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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
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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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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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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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.
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Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it he sees knowledge and does not use it.
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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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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It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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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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I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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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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Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.
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