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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
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Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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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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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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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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God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.
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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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