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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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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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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
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In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge of judgement and virtue, little news.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.
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Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.
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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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