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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
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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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