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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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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!
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.
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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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