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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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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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After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
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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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The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.
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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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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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God defend me from myself.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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