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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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Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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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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Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.
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We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
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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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A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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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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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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