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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
Poet Lawyer
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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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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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
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It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
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There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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