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If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry I will find you another who will not agree with him.
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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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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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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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
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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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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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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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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.
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