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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me he does me most good when he does himself good.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.
Michel de Montaigne
The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all they will chew our meat for us.
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Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.
Michel de Montaigne
Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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