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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Things
Altering
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Borrowed
Steal
Stealing
Glad
Service
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Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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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.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
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He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
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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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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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