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The most universal quality is diversity.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
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Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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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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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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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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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover he only beats the water for another's net.
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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