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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me he does me most good when he does himself good.
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The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
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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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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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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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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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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
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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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As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
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Habit is a second nature.
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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
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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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