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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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We are born to inquire after truth it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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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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It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction I love myself too well.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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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 know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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