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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
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Nothing
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Fashion
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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
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There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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My art and profession is to live.
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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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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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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