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Men are nothing until they are excited.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Excited
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Men
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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
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The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.
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