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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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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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What am I to choose? Choose what you please, as long as you choose. There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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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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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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