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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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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Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
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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?
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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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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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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We are born to inquire after truth it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
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