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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
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
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~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~
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The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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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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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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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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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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