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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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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance
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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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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 consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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Others form man I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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