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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
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Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.
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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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