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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
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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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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
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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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Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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