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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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