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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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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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