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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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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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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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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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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
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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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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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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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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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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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I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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