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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
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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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Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
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