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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!
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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.
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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
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The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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God defend me from myself.
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Habit is a second nature.
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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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