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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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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We are born to inquire after truth it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
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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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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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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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Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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