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Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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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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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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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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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.
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Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
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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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