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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
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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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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
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Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.
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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.
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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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