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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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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Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
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It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.
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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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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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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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