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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
Autobiographer
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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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I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
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Habit is a second nature.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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Saying is one thing and doing is another
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A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
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After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences they always receive me with the same kindness.
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