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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
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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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Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
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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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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge of judgement and virtue, little news.
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
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Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
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If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.
Michel de Montaigne
Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
Michel de Montaigne
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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.
Michel de Montaigne
But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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