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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
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A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
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The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
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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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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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