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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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 I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
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When we have got it, we want something else.
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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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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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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Others form man I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
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God defend me from myself.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.
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