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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
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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 good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.
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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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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
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It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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