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Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark I am the first to do so by my entire being, as 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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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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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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Others form man I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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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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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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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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We are born to inquire after truth it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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