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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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
Jurist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
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It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Men are nothing until they are excited.
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