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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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Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me he does me most good when he does himself good.
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
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Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think
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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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God defend me from myself.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
Michel de Montaigne
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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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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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
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