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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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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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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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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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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