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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
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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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To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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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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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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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 not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
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For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.
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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.
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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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