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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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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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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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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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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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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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Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.
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Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
Michel de Montaigne
The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
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The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
Michel de Montaigne
For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
Michel de Montaigne
Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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