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If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
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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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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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!
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.
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Saying is one thing and doing is another
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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