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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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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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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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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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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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Habit is a second nature.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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And not to serve for a table-talk.
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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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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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