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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.
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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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.
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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
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We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
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It needs courage to be afraid.
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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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Habit is a second nature.
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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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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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I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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