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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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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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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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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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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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There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.
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