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Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
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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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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The most universal quality is diversity.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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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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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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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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Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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