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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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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.
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Habit is a second nature.
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The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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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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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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When we have got it, we want something else.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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