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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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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.
Michel de Montaigne
Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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I do not teach. I relate.
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
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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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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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The soul that has no established aim loses itself
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it
Michel de Montaigne
It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
Michel de Montaigne
There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
Michel de Montaigne
It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.
Michel de Montaigne
There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
Michel de Montaigne
I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?
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