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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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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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The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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My trade and art is to live.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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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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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
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My art and profession is to live.
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