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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
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
Poet Lawyer
Politician
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Libertarian
Liberty
Least
Belief
Understand
Believe
Men
Libertarianism
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Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.
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Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
Michel de Montaigne
Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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