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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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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.
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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover he only beats the water for another's net.
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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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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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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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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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
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