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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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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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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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Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge of judgement and virtue, little news.
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Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
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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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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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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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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.
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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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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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