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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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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.
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After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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God defend me from myself.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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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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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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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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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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