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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
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
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I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.
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Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it he sees knowledge and does not use it.
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
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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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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
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There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.
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