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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
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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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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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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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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