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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
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We have power over nothing except our will.
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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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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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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