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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover he only beats the water for another's net.
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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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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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It needs courage to be afraid.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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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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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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