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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
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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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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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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
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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 have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.
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Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
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There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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