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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
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A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
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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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There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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