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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
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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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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
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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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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
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