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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it
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Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
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I do not teach. I relate.
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