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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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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If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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God defend me from myself.
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'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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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 put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
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