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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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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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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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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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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.
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I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.
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