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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
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And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.
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The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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