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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it he sees knowledge and does not use it.
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Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.
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I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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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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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.
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