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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
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Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Excited
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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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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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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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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Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it he sees knowledge and does not use it.
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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