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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
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French Moralist
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Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
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We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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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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The thing I fear most is fear.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.
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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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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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We are born to inquire after truth it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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