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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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
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Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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