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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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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I do not teach. I relate.
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Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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Saying is one thing and doing is another
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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