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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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