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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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If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry I will find you another who will not agree with him.
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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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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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
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The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
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One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.
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Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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