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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
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Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
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We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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