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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
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.
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The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.
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Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.
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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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