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Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Knowledge is an excellent drug but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.
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We have power over nothing except our will.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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Every movement reveals us.
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The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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The human face is a weak guarantee yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences they always receive me with the same kindness.
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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