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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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
Smell
Though
Wells
Well
Stink
Perfume
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It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.
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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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Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long, and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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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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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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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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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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