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There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
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
Jurist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
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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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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota for my knowledge I cannot answer.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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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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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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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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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould
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