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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
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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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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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It needs courage to be afraid.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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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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The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.
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Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
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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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