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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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 nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.
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Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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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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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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