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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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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 clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
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Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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When we have got it, we want something else.
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A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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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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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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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