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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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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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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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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
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