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Habit is a second nature.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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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
Habit
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I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.
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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
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We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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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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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
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I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?
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