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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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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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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
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The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
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Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.
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To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences they always receive me with the same kindness.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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