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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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The soul that has no established aim loses itself
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We have power over nothing except our will.
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Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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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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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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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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Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
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