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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
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The most universal quality is diversity.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.
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I do not teach. I relate.
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