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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
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Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.
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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
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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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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.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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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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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
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