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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
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
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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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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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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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The thing I fear most is fear.
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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
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Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.
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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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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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