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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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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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He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover he only beats the water for another's net.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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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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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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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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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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