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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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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 are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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