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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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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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Knowledge is an excellent drug but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.
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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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Others form man I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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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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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.
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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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The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
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Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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