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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Cowardly
Disappointment
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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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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There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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It needs courage to be afraid.
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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My trade and art is to live.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry I will find you another who will not agree with him.
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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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