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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: Shut up, he said, so that they do not realize that you are here with me.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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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 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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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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My trade and art is to live.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
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As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
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