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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Everything
Nothing
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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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There is nothing useless in nature not even uselessness itself
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.
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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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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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