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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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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
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The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
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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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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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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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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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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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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.
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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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