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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.
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The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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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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I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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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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