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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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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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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.
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