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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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Knowledge is an excellent drug but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.
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God defend me from myself.
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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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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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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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