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To understand via the heart is not to understand.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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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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How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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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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I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.
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I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: Shut up, he said, so that they do not realize that you are here with me.
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