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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
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Habit
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Nature
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
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The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.
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Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
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If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould
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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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