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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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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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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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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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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.
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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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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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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.
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The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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