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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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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!
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Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.
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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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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
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To understand via the heart is not to understand.
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My art and profession is to live.
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In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota for my knowledge I cannot answer.
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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]
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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
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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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The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction I love myself too well.
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