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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
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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 only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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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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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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