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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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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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When we have got it, we want something else.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould
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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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The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.
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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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