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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
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If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry I will find you another who will not agree with him.
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The soul that has no established aim loses itself
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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