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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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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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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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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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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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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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Habit is a second nature.
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Long life, and short, are by death made all one for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
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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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
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Knowledge is an excellent drug but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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