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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.
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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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.
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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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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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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.
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Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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