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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
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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 height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
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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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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
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Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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