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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
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.
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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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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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