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Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
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
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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