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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
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Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
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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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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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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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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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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
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Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?
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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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