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Death pays all debts.
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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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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The most universal quality is diversity.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
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