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Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
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
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
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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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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
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