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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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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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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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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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God defend me from myself.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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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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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
Michel de Montaigne
Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
Michel de Montaigne
The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
Michel de Montaigne
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
Michel de Montaigne
Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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