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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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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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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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