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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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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Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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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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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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What am I to choose? Choose what you please, as long as you choose. There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?
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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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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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