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Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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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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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.
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We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
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We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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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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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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