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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
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French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
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In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.
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Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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