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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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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
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Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.
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The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
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The most universal quality is diversity.
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.
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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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