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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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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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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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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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It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.
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The soul that has no established aim loses itself
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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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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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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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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The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: Shut up, he said, so that they do not realize that you are here with me.
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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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