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Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
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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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota for my knowledge I cannot answer.
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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.
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A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
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God defend me from myself.
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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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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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