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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
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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 my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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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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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?
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