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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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Politician
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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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A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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God defend me from myself.
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Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
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Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.
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