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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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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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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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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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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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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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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.
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