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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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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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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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Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences they always receive me with the same kindness.
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Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.
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Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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