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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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When we have got it, we want something else.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
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