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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
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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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We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.
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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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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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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.
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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry I will find you another who will not agree with him.
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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